[Newcompiler] Does the new compiler work for Tweak?

[Ken G. Brown]

Would it make sense to add the appropriate modifications to the new compiler so that Tweak could be used?
   Ken G. Brown

At 7:23 PM +0100 12/3/08, Marcus Denker apparently wrote:
>On 03.12.2008, at 19:20, Ken G. Brown wrote:
>
>>On the croquet-dev list, John Dougan mentions that "Tweak uses a modified compiler".
>>Does the new compiler work for Tweak?
>>
>
>No, they hacked the old compiler.
>
>	Marcus
>
>>Ken G. Brown
>>
>>At 6:00 AM -0500 12/3/08, croquet-dev-request at duke.edu apparently wrote:
>>>Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2008 01:41:29 -0800
>>>From: "John Dougan" <jdougan at acm.org>
>>>Subject: Re: [croquet-dev] Hard to find instance variables in Croquet.
>>>
>>>They're almost certainly not instance vars, but "fields".   Fields are
>>>something like instance vars but they are represented in the myProperties
>>>dict in the CObject. If a field is not used it won't take up storage in the
>>>dict.  Tweak uses a modified compiler that translates variable reference
>>>syntax into accessor message sends and creates accessors automatically so
>>>that the vars are never actually accessed directly.
>>>So in Tweak: (assuming that foo is not a method temporary var)
>>>  foo := self bar: 4 + 5.
>>>  self foo: (self bar: 4 + 5).
>>>do pretty much the same thing in the bytecode. This is useful as it means
>>>that it's hard to accidentally bypass the event mechanisms in Tweak.
>>>
>>>If you browse a subclass of CObject and right click on one of the instance
>>>vars you'll see a pop up giving you the options for the var.  The
>>>color/emphasis of the var name tells you what kind of var it is.
>>>
>>>Some description of the fields is at
>>>http://tweakproject.org/TECHNOLOGY/Tutorials/BankAccountTutorial/ and at
>>>http://tweakproject.org/tweak/tutorials/Tweak-Introduction.pdf
>>>
>>>Cheers,
>>>-- John
>>>
>>>On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 23:46, askoh <askoh at askoh.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>>There seem to be many instance variables in the class CPlayer that are not
>>>>showing up in the debugger and 'show hierarchy'. Why? Is this a known bug
>>>>or
>>>>something special?
>>>>
>>>>Aik-Siong Koh
>>>>--
>>>>View this message in context:
>>>>
>>>http://www.nabble.com/Hard-to-find-instance-variables-in-Croquet.-tp20808243p20
>>>808243.html
>>>>Sent from the Croquet - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>--
>>>John Dougan
>>>jdougan at acm.org
>
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