From: Paul Brannan <pbrannan@...>
Date: 2002-04-24T22:25:50+09:00
Subject: Re: building extensions-- new vs initialize

On Wed, Apr 24, 2002 at 06:56:43PM +0900, Matt M Sykes wrote:
> So to me, SWIG is sort of a kluge for languages that have a less
> enlightened C API :)

SWIG is more than that; it's also a good way of abstracting away all the
wrapping of your C++ classes.  If I want to switch to Perl or Scheme
tomorrow, and I have used SWIG to wrap my classes, then I can do that
with minimal changes.  If I wrapped my classes using the Ruby C API,
then I will have a long day ahead of me.

Paul