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L. McColl-Sylvester and F. Ponticelli

"Professional haXe and Neko"


In order to actually use the identifier, it must first be defined. Surprisingly, you do this using the
DEFINE_KIND macro:
DEFINE_KIND( MY_ABSTRACT_KIND );
Unlike the DECLARE_KIND , DEFINE_KIND must only occur once within your C/C++ library, so it
wouldn ??™ t normally appear inside a header file.
Part III: Extending the Possibilities
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Handling Abstract Values in Neko
Once you have your nicely packaged abstract value in C/C++, you ??™ re probably going to want to pass it
back to Neko. In haXe, an abstract value doesn ??™ t have a type, per se, but as all values in haXe have a
type, even if inferred, it is then important to tell the haXe compiler that the variable container holding
the abstract value is of a nonmanageable type or placeholder if you will. This is especially true if the
variable container exists as a class member variable, whereby failing to specify a type results in a
compiler error. So, you make your value safe and type the variable as type Void :
var myAbstract : Void = hello( neko.


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