Re: [Cardinal-dev] RubyInRuby parser/compiler

[Dan Sugalski]

At 10:20 PM +0100 1/7/03, Erik Bågfors wrote:
> 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 :) )???

PMC constants? Alas not, just integer, float, and string, which is
insufficient for the task at hand, alas.
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