Re: [FWP] OOPs not based on Structs.

[Ariel Scolnicov <ariels@compugen.co.il>]

SWIG (a toolkit for wrapping external code) with Perl uses blessed
scalars for the interface.  When handling almost any C object, it uses 
a scalar (containing the pointer value), blessed into an appropriate
package.  It's a very logical way of handling stuff.  After all, the
Perl interpreter has no use for the contents of the C object, except
passing it around to the wrapped C functions.

Of course, it also means that if you bless a scalar value
appropriately, you can get Perl to call C code with random pointers.
That's almost like programming in C!
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