From: ptkwt@... (Phil Tomson)
Date: 2004-07-24T08:51:57+09:00
Subject: Re: Is Ruby to Objective-C Source Translator Easier?

In article <UFgMc.2791$cL3.2428@newssvr15.news.prodigy.com>,
Gully Foyle  <nospam@nospamnospamnospam.com> wrote:
>Would it be easier to create a ruby to objective-c translator than it is 
>to create a ruby compiler?  Given the following, it appears it might be 
>easier to do this than converting ruby to pure c or c++.
>
>Support for blocks in Objective-C described here (its been tested with 
>POCS, not sure how many other compilers support this):
>
>    http://users.pandora.be/stes/block98/index.html
>

I could be wrong, but I don't believe that the gcc Objective C compiler 
supports this and it is the most widely used compiler for Obj C (and it's 
essentially what is used on the Mac platform for compiing Obj C/cocoa).

Phil