From: Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net>
Date: 2006-07-06T05:33:41+09:00
Subject: Re: Automatic Ruby to JavaScript conversion

On Jul 5, 2006, at 8:30 AM, Paul Battley wrote:

> Here's something for the hungry mob to tear apart: automatic Ruby to
> JavaScript conversion. It seems somehow wrong, like grafting a pretty
> girl's head onto a donkey, but I've done it anyway!

Personally, I find JS a pretty awesome language, but I don't write JS  
the typical way.

> It uses Ryan Davis et al's ParseTree and Florian Gro�'s ruby.js for
> most of the hard work. It's still very limited, and there are many
> warts, not least of which is the requirement for an explicit receiver
> on every method.

Why aren't you using SexpProcessor?  It takes care of all the stuff  
you've got in #handle and more!  Also makes it easy to write tests.

You can probably handle :fcall if you have the correct class  
hierarchy and just use self.

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