Re: Next SWIG release

On Mon, 27 Jan 2003 16:05:52 -0600 (CST), David Beazley
<beazley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote :

> Refresh my memory on this.  How much work do you think would be
> involved and what would be modified?

The issue is how to handle multiple inheritance for Ruby, which only
supports single inheritance.

Brett suggested his approach last June (see the SWIG TODO file, under the
Ruby section). Other than the usual time constraints, I think the main
reason I punted on it at the time was that it seemed like the kind of thing
that might be implemented at at the core level, for use by any interested
language module, and not just in the Ruby module. But on further reflection,
it's probably better to go ahead and just do it first in the Ruby module and
then "promote" it up the class hierarchy (i.e. to the Language class) if it
proves useful.

It has been so long since I've looked at this issue that I couldn't guess
how much work is involved -- but it doesn't seem like it should be such a
big deal.
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