A Common Lisp IDL Binding

A.5 Mapping pseudo-objects to Lisp

Pseudo-objects are constructs whose definition is usually specified in IDL, but whose mapping is language specified. A pseudo-object is not (usually) a regular CORBA object.

A pseudo-object differs from a regular CORBA object in the following ways:

It is not represented in the Interface Repository.
It may not be passed as a parameter to an operation expecting a CORBA object.
It may not be returned as a CORBA Object.
It may not be stored in anany.
If it is represented as a class, it may not be safely subclassed by user code.

We have chosen the option allowed in the IDL specification to definestatus asvoid and have eliminated it for the convenience of Lisp programmers.

Each of the standard IDL pseudo-objects is mapped according to the translation rules just defined.