From: Brian Candler Date: 2009-12-09T05:27:31+09:00 Subject: Re: how about ruby's threads? Tony Arcieri wrote: > On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 2:46 AM, Brian Candler > wrote: > >> When I get a few spare cycles I'm trying to hack together a >> ruby-flavoured erlang: just a front end which emits either the erlang >> abstract syntax form, or regular erlang source. >> > > For what it's worth, that's what Reia is already. No, I don't think so. Reia will run on the Erlang VM but will be a substantially different language to Erlang: it will have destructive assignment, and be a lot more dynamic. Being able to compile AOT to .beam files is not necessarily going to be provided. Furthermore it will have different function call semantics, which you'll have to take account of if calling reia from erlang or vice versa. http://groups.google.com/group/reia/browse_thread/thread/668e6b302bba98b6 What I'm toying with is just a different syntax for standard Erlang, which you'd compile to .beam and would be indistinguishable from Erlang at that level. Not sure I'm going to have the time, but I've just started hacking erlang's existing yecc grammar which looks like the path of least resistance. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.