From: "James, Roshan (Cognizant)" <JRoshan@...>
Date: 2004-04-25T17:36:56+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby on .NET (was Re: A Ruby WishList)

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//stack based languages do computation on stack. They usually=20
//identify var as index and process the stack. variable names=20
//vanish. Ruby, I think will need the variable names at many=20
//places to process code.

Aah, yes, variable names are lost for local variables - but member
variable sof classes do retain their field names. So for most dynamic
behavior that would suffice - when there are behaviors that involve
something like an "eval" changing a local variable I would expect the
compiler to generate some sort of plumbing code that will make
appropriate modifications to the local variable on the stack.=20


//However, for a majority of Ruby's dynamism we have spikes=20
//that show how=20
//to solve them; for the rest I'm more skeptical. In=20
//particular, I don't=20
//see continuations happening, threads will be different and=20
//probably some=20
//other things I forget about now... ;)

//David Simmons, the creator of Smallscript/S# [0] (Smalltalk=20
//for .Net),=20
//used to frequent this list.  I believe he has discussed many of the=20
//issues with porting a dynamically-typed language to the CLR (some on=20
//ruby-talk, but also at  [1]).
//
//[0] http://www.smallscript.org/
//[1] http://www.smallscript.org/Downloads/SSharp_NET_Notes.asp

Thank you for being open enough to discuss this technically - I was
afraid of this thread degrading into mindless flame wars.=20

Robert, Sir, can you tell how I could know when your project is released
- do you have a notification system or something similar? I would be
very interested in your work. I cannot seem to find a project page about
this, is it this one?
http://www.ce.chalmers.se/~feldt/ruby/ideas/rubyvm/

Regards
Roshan

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