Yeah, maybe "templated" was the wrong word for me to use (as they're
obviously compile-time choices). Aside from boost::variant or something
similar, I don't see an easy way to make a single component handle
different data types. Oh well. Not a huge deal. Thanks though.

*Dustin Gooding*
NASA/JSC Robotics

On 09/10/2012 03:19 AM, Markus Klotzbuecher wrote:
> Hi Dustin,
>
> On Fri, Sep 07, 2012 at 11:03:39AM -0500, Dustin Gooding wrote:
>
>> Say I have a bit of logic within a component that could feasibly work on
>> different data types. As far as I know, the only way to implement this is to
>> have multiple compiled components (one for each potential data type) that get
>> deployed appropriately. This seems inefficient, from a developer's
>> perspective.
>>
>> Is it possible to create a templated component, such that the data type it
>> operates on is determined at deployment instead of compile time?
> You could write a templated component to customize the datatype, but
> that will then be a compile time choice, not deployment time. Strictly
> deployment time is not so easy. The easiest way would be to write a
> Lua component, but that is inefficient for heavy computations. It also
> depends on what range of data this component needs to deal with.
>
> Markus
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