On Wed, 16 May 2001 09:38:44 +0900
Albert Wagner <alwagner / tcac.net> wrote:

> Compiling into Obj-C is a natural solution for an OOP interpreter.  The 
> overhead is a very small runtime, but the dynamism is preserved.

This is a very interesting concept, although it seems like the problems might become overwhelming (how, for example, do you deal with instance variables, which can be added at runtime?  What about class variables? Garbage collection? The object models of ObjC and Ruby are not quite similar enough to easily merge them...).  Are there any examples of this having been done with another language? (FScript comes vaguely to mind, but I know nothing about the implementation.)