"Mark van Gulik" <ghoul6 at home.net> wrote:
>  Squeak, on the other hand, is missing so much (and *allows* so much
> stuff that can never be translated) that your proposal can never be anything
> beyond a simple pretty-printer.
I suspect you may be confusing Mats' ambitions with your own. If I
understood Mats' proposal correctly, he aims explicitly for an S that
unifies *syntaxes* having the same semantics. If all the target
languages make the same (no) assumptions about type, there's no great
gap to cross in the translation.

This would help people to have multiple and diverse pretty printers and
surface syntaxes, and fewer syntax arguments, leaving more time to code
and have disscussions about interesting things, like semantics. So the
S/pretty printer is useful, and if it's simple, that's so much for the
better...

Daniel