Fragile ABI

[Paulo Pinto]

On Monday, 20 August 2012 at 18:37:00 UTC, R Grocott wrote:
> On Monday, 20 August 2012 at 15:26:48 UTC, Kagamin wrote:
>> What you ask for sounds quite similar to COM composition with 
>> delegation.
>
> Would anybody mind linking to resources which describe COM 
> composition with delegation? It's been suggested twice in this 
> thread as an alternative way to develop a non-fragile API, but 
> anything related to COM is almost invisible to search engines 
> (even moreso than D itself).

You just need to know Windows development well, as this type of 
information requires MSDN navigation skills. :)

The best book about COM programming that I know is,
The Waite Group's COM/DCOM Primer Plus
http://www.amazon.com/DCOM-Primer-Plus-Waite-Group/dp/0672314924/ref=sr_1_cc_1?s=aps&ie=UTF8&qid=1345529642&sr=1-1-catcorr

Back to how composition works,
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms678443%28v=vs.85%29
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms686558%28v=vs.85%29

With ATL the code gets much more simple to get,
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/173823

Another example from CodeGuru,
http://www.codeguru.com/cpp/com-tech/atl/article.php/c3579/Containment-and-Aggregation.htm
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Paulo