From: Phlip <phlipcpp@...>
Date: 2005-10-01T14:41:46+09:00
Subject: Re: Interest in Boost::Ruby

Alan Gutierrez wrote:

>    I know that Ruby can communicate with C++ using SWIG, but I'm
>    wondering if there isn't anything more explicit. Something that
>    will bind tighter to Ruby. The Boost libraries favor Python due
>    to Boost::Python. Is there something similar, or is there
>    interest in something similar?
>
>        http://www.boost.org/libs/python/doc/

I have no idea how Boost reflects C++ members into Python members, but 
Boosties are the C++ reflection experts so I'm sure they beat a way out of 
C++'s endlessly complex template system.

Bonding raw Ruby to raw C++ is much much easier than bonding Python to it. 
(Or Perl, or Lua, while we are on the topic. I have worked with all four.)

I wrote an extensive project using Ruby as the scripting language for an 
OpenGL renderer, and I tossed it on the web somewhere, but I forget where.

Eric Hodel is probably the best C language bonding expert. Here's one of his 
blogs showing "Ruby written in C":

http://www.livejournal.com/users/drbrain/2005/05/03/

The best thing I have done with the VALUE object is very simple: I wrap it 
in a C++ class that exposes the functions taking a VALUE as simple methods, 
overloaded operators, etc. Very simple, and I don't pretend it's a C++ 
class. It makes coding very fast.

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  Phlip
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