Re: Boost::Ruby

David Abrahams <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lib.boost.langbinding
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Rene Rivera <[email protected]> writes:

> David Abrahams wrote:
>> Alan Gutierrez <[email protected]> writes:
>> 
>>>Hello. Responding to Rene's message on the boost mailing list to
>>>    post here regarding a Ruby langbinding.
>>>
>>>    I've checked out a lot of languaged bindings for reference, as I
>>>    noted, these are the ones that looked relevant...
>>>
>>>    http://engrm.com/wiki/Refresh#Ruby.2FC.2B.2B_Bindings
>>>
>>>    The Java bindings are a better reference for me than Python
>>>    bindings, since I have no Python experience.
>>
>> However, the design of that particular binding facility may not map
>> very well onto langbinding, FWIW.  We do have a rough strategy for
>> Java, but IIUC it will have to be a bit different from the others,
>> because the langbinding library will have to generate JNI code that is
>> eventually compiled.
>
> For a while I entertained the idea of writing a special loader that 
> would inject symbol bindings dynamically.

That's a cool one!!

-- 
Dave Abrahams
Boost Consulting
www.boost-consulting.com



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