Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: What *not* to use Haskell for

On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 14:46, Henning Thielemann wrote:

SWIG helps wrapping C++ libraries by providing C wrappers to C++ functions. However, as far as I know, templates cannot be wrapped as they are, but only instances of templates. Thus there is no wrapper to STL.

Maybe my understanding is a bit off, but isn't this to be expected? There's no way to compile a generic template to machine code, as template instantiation happens at source level in C++. cheers, Arnar