From: Elias Athanasopoulos <elathan@...>
Date: 2004-01-12T05:09:47+09:00
Subject: Re: convert a C/C++ array to a Ruby array

On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 06:46:40AM +0900, Phil Tomson wrote:
> > The generated code is quite readable and can be altered by a human, but 
> > I want to eliminate as much as I can the human intervation, so as the majority of the  
> > C++ prototypes to be compiled in the Ruby API without human editing. 
> >  
> > I checked SWIG and it returns a special SWIG object in that case... 
> >  
> I'm just curious, why didn't you use SWIG for this?  Sounds sort of
> like you're recreating SWIG.

Because SWIG doesn't produce readable by human C++ code. Also, there
are things in the extension that I prefer to port to Ruby in a different 
way from the one SWIG uses.

I know that using SWIG's internal scripting language can do almost
everything I do, but I already know C++ and it is easiest to do it
in my way. I don't recreate SWIG. My auto-generated code is specific
for my extension and the compiler I create is less than 500 lines of
Ruby code (I don't parse the prototypes, because the original C++ code
has RTTI related functions i.e. 'bring me the arguments foo() takes
as input').

Regards,
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