Re: Language Interoperability

2004-04-07 Thread Jon Shapcott
On Tue, Apr 06, 2004 at 06:04:56PM -0400, Randy W. Sims wrote: > On 4/6/2004 11:06 AM, Dan Sugalski wrote: > >At 6:12 AM -0400 4/4/04, Randy W. Sims wrote: > >[Scheme 1: hierarchy munging] > > > >[Scheme 2: loadable-library style plugins] > > > >>Is there anything in the above that stands out as po

Re: Language Interoperability

2004-04-07 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 6:04 PM -0400 4/6/04, Randy W. Sims wrote: On 4/6/2004 11:06 AM, Dan Sugalski wrote: At 6:12 AM -0400 4/4/04, Randy W. Sims wrote: [Scheme 1: hierarchy munging] [Scheme 2: loadable-library style plugins] Is there anything in the above that stands out as potentially being problematic? Well, t

Re: Language Interoperability

2004-04-06 Thread Randy W. Sims
On 4/6/2004 11:06 AM, Dan Sugalski wrote: At 6:12 AM -0400 4/4/04, Randy W. Sims wrote: [Scheme 1: hierarchy munging] [Scheme 2: loadable-library style plugins] Is there anything in the above that stands out as potentially being problematic? Well, there are a lot of languages that really dislik

Re: Language Interoperability

2004-04-06 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 6:12 AM -0400 4/4/04, Randy W. Sims wrote: [Scheme 1: hierarchy munging] [Scheme 2: loadable-library style plugins] Is there anything in the above that stands out as potentially being problematic? Well, there are a lot of languages that really dislike having their inheritance hierarchy change

Language Interoperability

2004-04-04 Thread Randy W. Sims
to script Module::Build installs and write plugins in any of the languages supported by Parrot. In order to accomplish this we need to make sure that the plugin architecture chosen is compatible with any restrictions or limitations with regards to language interoperability. For example, right now