From: Steven Jenkins <steven.jenkins@...>
Date: 2005-07-08T05:56:25+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby as mathematical language

Paulo Jabardo wrote:
>>One option would be to reimplement rb-gsl using
>>SWIG.
> 
> ruby-gsl already wraps most of gsl. From what I've
> seen on this list, the problem is the Vector and
> Matrix libraries, even though they seem to work fine
> in ruby-gsl even though it does not use every OO
> concept available to ruby users.

My point is that wrappers generated by SWIG do not have this limitation. 
In particular, you can subclass the generated classes that correspond to 
structs in the underlying C interface, which was Webb's original issue.

Steve