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Overview

OCTAL includes a package called ox_wrappers, which is designed to simplify OCTAL machine programming through the use of syntactic features of C++. This section only explains the differences between raw OX_API programming and ox_wrappers, so it will help to have read the chapter on OX_API first.

In a nutshell, your machine type is now a class; individual machines are now instances of that class. This lets you have data members, utility classes, and all the interesting features of C++ at your disposal to create machines.



David O'Toole
2000-07-19