From: Thomas Sondergaard <thomas@...>
Date: 2003-10-02T18:45:37+09:00
Subject: Re: C or C++?

> Ruby is really C-oriented.  It longjmps on errors, so the stack doesn't
> "unwind" the way C++ objects really wants it to.

I think I understand what you mean. Is it that destructors may not be called
as expected? Please elaborate!

>  There are work-arounds
> for that, but I found that without a good foundation of libraries to
> work with, C++ was a real pain, so I stick with C.

What kind of work arounds? If you rb_protect everything the longjmp's should
only happen in ruby-land, and you should be safe in C++, right?

Cheers,

Thomas