question about method dispatch

Bijan Parsia bparsia at email.unc.edu
Sat May 11 18:33:58 UTC 2002


On Sat, 11 May 2002, Tim Rowledge wrote:

> "Lex Spoon" <lex at cc.gatech.edu> is claimed by the authorities to have written:
> 
> > I'm not sure if anyone mentioned, but you can also run the Smalltalk
> > version of the interpreter, of course.  I'm not sure exactly how to fire
> > it up....
> Look at InterpreterSimulator;

Or at Craig's message of a few days past (instructions on the Swiki).

>  but be warned, it doesn't actaully work
> right now. 

Yes, it seems you have to drop back to 2.7 for this to work out of
box. For trying out method dispatching ideas, I think this should be
workable.

> The SecurityPlugin needs a well-formed simulator, the
> obsolete prim handling stuff needs some cleaner wrapping and probably
> other fixes are needed. Spent yesterday afernoon trying it....

Craig, I though *you* were going to fix this? ;)

Cheers,
Bijan Parsia.




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