Hi Monks
I am fairly new to Perl. For gluing my C++ components I decided to use SWIG. After reading the document and examples of using SWIG, I still have following doubts.
1) What exactly have to be included in %{ %} block? In some examples header files and some function declarations were made.But function was again declared outside the block as the one shown like function foo()
%module mymodule
%{ 
       #include file.h
       int foo();  
%}
   int foo();
   int bar();

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Why is this double declaration of function foo()?
2) Some functions are only declared outside the block like the function bar(). What is the difference in declaring inside and outside the bloack?
3) What is difference between %include and %import.
Kindly enlighten me
Thanking you all in advance
Regards,
Ashu

Edit: g0n - added code tags

In reply to Confusion regarding SWIG by Anonymous Monk

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