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From: kbrussel@media.mit.edu (Kenneth B Russell)
Subject: Announcement: Header2Scheme 1.1, a C++ FFI generator for SCM
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	Header2Scheme is an automatic C++ to Scheme (SCM) foreign
function interface generator. It is a tool for creating a simple,
consistent Scheme interface to a large number of C++ classes.

	Header2Scheme works by traversing a directory tree containing
header files for a C++ class library and creates code which implements a
backend for a Scheme interface to the public interfaces of the described
classes. It has been successfully used to generate Ivy, a Scheme interface
to the Open Inventor 3D graphics toolkit.

	New features in version 1.1 include:
	  - Garbage collection of C++ objects now works!
	  - Fixed two bugs which caused some accessors for overloaded
methods to get lost
	  - Added (void-null) procedure for getting a void-type NULL
pointer in Scheme when this opaque data type is defined.
	  - Created predicates for all C++ types, as well as a general
predicate "C++-object?"

	Header2Scheme is available from the Header2Scheme home page at

	  http://www-white.media.mit.edu/~kbrussel/Header2Scheme/

More information on Ivy is available from

	  http://www-white.media.mit.edu/~kbrussel/Ivy/

For more information, contact Kenneth B. Russell, kbrussel@media.mit.edu.


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Kenneth B. Russell                   "Sometimes you repeat yourself, man."
kbrussel@media.mit.edu               "It's my nature."        -Neuromancer
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