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<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">> > > On 05.12.2014, at 00:49, Dan <dnorton@mindspring.com> wrote:</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">>>> I'm interested in how to dynamically compile a class method.</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">It's easy (Thanks, Stephane):</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">You can invoke directly the compiler</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">for example in Pharo (there is a nice pharo-user mailing-list)</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">you can do </span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">MyClass compile: ‘myMethod ^ 42’</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">and you method is compiled and added to the class.</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">You can also create a class doing</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">Compiler evaluate: 'Object subclass: #Box2</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">           instanceVariableNames: ''height width''</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">           classVariableNames: ''''</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">           category: ''AABox’''</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">- Dan</span></font></div>
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