Re: [Cardinal-dev] RubyInRuby parser/compiler

[Erik Bågfors]

On Fri, 2003-01-03 at 23:36, Dan Sugalski wrote:

> Oh, you do. While the addition is of two constants, they're ruby 
> integer constants, with whatever behaviour is appropriate for them, 
> so the Fixnum addition method will get called. (I assume Ruby doesn't 
> do constant folding)
> 
> >Also, the following code is not strange in ruby
> >a = -1.abs()
> >
> >So we need to view constants as full objects.
> >
> >The fact that the JRuby-guys did it this way also convinces me.
> 
> Never said they wouldn't be. There won't be one forced universal 
> constant type, since that's untenable for all the languages we're 
> looking at. Ruby code will have different constant types than 
> perl/python/java/C#/whatever does, which is fine.


Just a short question,
Are "constants" working already? How do I use them (preferably imcc
syntax :) )???

/Erik

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