[plt-scheme] Announce: mzgtk2 release 2 version 2.6.10.002

From: Eli Barzilay (eli at barzilay.org)
Date: Sat Jan 6 15:37:35 EST 2007

On Jan  6, Robby Findler wrote:
> On 1/6/07, Eli Barzilay <eli at barzilay.org> wrote:
> > But: the problem is that header files don't tell you the whole story
> > -- you need to know more details like:
> >
> > * Is this function a Foo constructor, or does it return a reference to
> >   an existing Foo?
> >
> > * Is this pointer argument intended as an input or as an output value?
> >
> > * How are arguments related?  (e.g, a pointer to a vector, and the
> >   number of items in that vector).
> >
> > SWIG will not help you with these things.
> 
> I thoght SWIG was designed precisely to help with these kinds of things.

It allows you to specify these extra bits (so SWIG files can be
considered as yet another kind of an IDL) -- but that specification
must be done manually.

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