Swig and C++11

[Geert Janssens]

On Wednesday 24 December 2014 08:38:06 John Ralls
> ... although the SWIG folks still have some work
> to do to fully assimilate C++11 [1].
> 
> 
> [1] http://www.swig.org/Doc3.0/CPlusPlus11.html

I'm taking this line out of its wider context of the python wrapper discussion because it may 
be more important than only the python wrappers.

We also depend on swig for our interaction between current c(++) and guile code.

If we rewrite the engine in c++11, and want to export these new objects to guile, swig's 
capability to handle c++11 code becomes important.

I don't know that much about swig's internals. I do know it has a generic core and each 
supported language has its own module for language specific implementation. The python one 
is currently the most actively developed one.

The guile module on the other hand has no active maintainer and hasn't had one for years. (I 
had to implement the guile 2 compatibility myself for that reason).

So it may well be possible that swig's c++11 support for guile is quite broken. I don't think it 
gets tested other than "it builds". It is lacking lots of run time tests.

Geert