On 1 June 2011 18:50, Randal L. Schwartz <merlyn at stonehenge.com> wrote:
>>>>>> "Frank" == Frank Shearar <frank.shearar at gmail.com> writes:
>
> Frank> Amen. And what I'd like to see Trunk do is enable this kind of
> Frank> experimentation, by providing hooks into the base system, and making
> Frank> things pluggable/modular so that (a) you can actually run the
> Frank> experiment - by swapping out a Compiler, for instance - and (b) you
> Frank> don't have to hack on the Squeak platform itself. That lets your
> Frank> experiment fail without taking down the entire image.
>
> It already does.  OMeta uses that, for example.  I think the "Tiles"
> language also did.  Each class can declare which compiler is used for
> its methods and subclass methods.

Yes, this is true. And it mostly works quite easily, too - just
override YourClass >> #compilerClass and possibly #decompilerClass.

> Time to get cracking.

Yes - but first I have some tools to refactor!

frank