OMeta?

On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 10:19 AM, Igor Stasenko <siguctua at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello folks,
>
> during my visit at ESUG i had a conversation with Stephane, about
> different things, one of them is to make a better and cleaner compiler
> implementation.
>
> Current compiler code contains a lot of hacks and to be fair, is not a
> best example of good smalltalk code.
> What i'm proposing, is to establish a comittee for designing a better
> smalltalk compiler , which will replace old one on all existing Squeak
> forks.
> I think comittee should collect & discuss all feature requests, which
> new compiler should have, and then we can implement it and include in
> every and all forks.
> It is also, IMO, would be a good to make compiler modular - put it as
> separate package and maintain it as separate fork-independent entity.
> This will ensure that all existing forks in future will use the same
> compiler as the rest. Which will make people's life much easier :)
>
> I hope with support of atomic loading (btw a new compiler is a good
> test-bed for atomic loading) we should be able to load it at will :)
>
> --
> Best regards,
> Igor Stasenko AKA sig.
>
>


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