Hi Eliot--
Craig, do you agree?
Yes.
If so, how much of this do you have already?
Well, you mentioned:
This image needs minimal scripting support to respond to command-line bootstrap commands (including cross-platform stdin & stdout and a file interface)...
I do this through a web interface, which I prefer, but a module to do this through command-line parameters, stdin, and files would be straightforward.
...a compiler with which to compile code...
This is already a loadable thing, but I rarely load it because I don't need the compiler to install compiled methods.
...collections, magnitudes, exceptions (as necessary)...
Yes.
a default error handler that dumps the stack to stdout and then abort...
Yes.
...and that's about it.
Okay, there you go.
thanks,
-C
-- Craig Latta www.netjam.org next show: 2009-03-13 (www.thishere.org)