Jake Hamby wrote:

> environment in the runtime, but I was also thinking about the implications
> of being able to call the C compiler in the background and reload the
> translated version as a module.

Most of what you are describing is already realized in SmalltalkX.
Have a look at
http://www.exept.de/


Michael

P.S. I found a really old version in
http://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/devel/lang/smalltalkx/!INDEX.html
It still says tomcat in the copyright...

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