From: ptkwt@...1.aracnet.com (Phil Tomson) Date: 2002-07-21T05:22:23+09:00 Subject: Re: Objective C backend for Ruby? In article , Dan Sugalski wrote: >At 10:35 PM +0900 7/19/02, James F.Hranicky wrote: >>While people are kicking around ideas for new backends for Ruby, >>does anyone think that a backend could be written for Ruby that >>uses the Objective C (GnuStep, Cocoa) runtime libraries? Or even >>just a translator from Ruby to ObjC ? >> >>Seems that the languages are simliar in many respects, and it seems >>like ObjC, being a superset of C, would make a good backend if it's >>possible (threads, performance, etc). > >You'd have a heck of a time with continuations, unfortunately. >Otherwise it should be reasonably doable. >-- > Dan > Well, in the current Ruby implementation continuations are implemented with C code, why couldn't they be implemented in ObjectiveC? Phil