#import ???

[Radde]

HI,
What is #import in c++? Why and Where do you use it?? first of all is
import is a c++ keyword??

Cheers.....

 

[red floyd]

HI,
What is #import in c++? Why and Where do you use it?? first of all is
import is a c++ keyword??

Cheers.....

It's a Microsoft-ism, having to do with COM or .NET.

Ask in microsoft.public.vstudio.*

 

[Bob Smith]

HI,
What is #import in c++? Why and Where do you use it?? first of all is
import is a c++ keyword??

Cheers.....

you mean #include? then yes,
import is java stuff

 

[Rolf Magnus]

HI,
What is #import in c++?

Nothing like that in standard C++.

Why and Where do you use it?? first of all is
import is a c++ keyword??

No, it's a syntax error.

 

[John Dibling]

HI,
What is #import in c++? Why and Where do you use it?? first of all is
import is a c++ keyword??

#import is not a Standard C++ keyword. #import is an MSVC language
extension; not part of Standard C++. It's used to bring in the symbols
from a compiled typelibrary (ie, '#import "mylib.tlb"') or an IDL file
(ie, '#import "mylib.idl"')

Take care,

John Dibling

 

[kelvSYC]

What is #import in c++? Why and Where do you use it?? first of all is

import is a c++ keyword??

It's a gcc extension that works similar to #include, but in which the
compiler ensures that a file is never included more than once. It is
provided in several other compilers as well.

Its inclusion in gcc as a preprocessor extension is due to the fact
that the Objective-C and Objective-C++ languages have it as part of
their language.

 

[ben]

Its inclusion in gcc as a preprocessor extension is due to the fact
that the Objective-C and Objective-C++ languages have it as part of
their language.

I'm just wondering, where the heck came the Objective C++??? Is C++ not
complex enough that we need another language to fill our brain??

ben

 

[Clark S. Cox III]

I'm just wondering, where the heck came the Objective C++??? Is C++ not
complex enough that we need another language to fill our brain??

[OT]
Objective-C++ is just the compiler allowing Objective-C and C++ code in
the same translation unit. This is required if you want to call C++
from Objective-C (or vice versa) without using a bunch of extern "C"
functions as intermediaries.
[/OT]

 

[kelvSYC]

[OT]

Objective-C++ is just the compiler allowing Objective-C and C++ code in
the same translation unit. This is required if you want to call C++
from Objective-C (or vice versa) without using a bunch of extern "C"
functions as intermediaries.
[/OT]

That's pretty much it, but there are a few technical things that having
C++ instead of C as a "base language" as a result (eg. obj-c classes
only permit structure/class members when they are pod, obj-c selectors
allow reference arguments, some implementations also allow the C++ side
to use restricted pointers), and a few really annoying things that
result (sizeof(BOOL) == 1, but sizeof(bool) is machine-dependent). But
that's really going off-topic.