From: Eleanor McHugh <eleanor@...>
Date: 2009-06-05T01:01:35+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] Endless Ruby 0.0.2

On 4 Jun 2009, at 15:10, Michael Bruschkewitz wrote:
> "Caleb Clausen" <vikkous@gmail.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag > Michael  
> Bruschkewitz wrote: (in another thread)
>>> At breakfast I had the idea it would be possible to implement/ 
>>> apply it to current file it by
>>> simply using
>>> "require 'tool4endH8ers.rb'" or
>>> "require 'languageConverter_pyi.rb'" or
>>> "require 'languageConverter_BASIC.rb'" or
>>> "require 'languageConverter_f77.rb'" or...
>>> "require 'applySomeOtherWeirdOptions.rb'" or...
>>> at the beginning of each file or at the beginning of main file.
>>> I'm sure some Kernel.magic would make this possible.
>>
>> I'm not entirely sure, but it seems like he's saying that if you
>> should be able to require "languageConverter_f77.rb", and then write
>> the rest of the file in fortran.
>
> That's exactly may idea, until next required "converter"... or some  
> end marker.
> It wold be similar to eval_f77 << END_OF_F77CODE ...
> Core question remaining: Who writes those converters?

I can't help but wonder why bother when you could just write F77 code,  
compile it and then use either ruby/dl or ruby-ffi to call it directly  
from ruby.


Ellie

Eleanor McHugh
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