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REP - Interface Definition and Language Mapping #365
Description
I believe the ROS 2 design article Interface Definition and Language Mapping should be formalized as a REP.
The REP should cover:
- Supported subset of IDL
- Mappings between IDL, ROSIDL, C, C++, Python for all data types available
The ROS 2 documentation has some outdated (incorrect) information (ros2/ros2_documentation#2884), and while I was updating this I figured that the details should be a REP rather than be in the docs.
This is my first time contributing a REP, so just wanted to make sure this is something we'd want before I start working on a PR. Also, how should I number the rep?