whoa man... what's Meta Ruby?

Is this FYI or are you asking me to help or what?

Sincerely,

Dazed and Confused in Vancouver

On 12/06/01 at 9:48 AM Avi Bryant wrote:

>On Tue, 12 Jun 2001, Laurent Julliard wrote:
>
>> GNUstep is all developed in Objective C which is fine with me but beside
>> that they have adopted Guile as their "scripting" language which I
>> personnally don;t like that much. Since Objective C borrowed most of its
>> OO concepts from Smalltalk I think having Ruby as an alternate high
>> level scripting language for GNUstep would be just great. Plus when you
>> read the specs of the 2 languages you realize that they fit nicely
>> together.
>> 
>> So I have 2 questions:
>> 
>> - Has anybody worked on that before (For those who are also on the
>> japanese mailing list, are you aware of anything on this side? )
>
>I started a quick proof of concept of this, but it needs some work before
>it's usable.  What'll take the most time is data conversion issues (eg,
>I'd like to write subclasses of NSMutableString, NSMutableArray, and
>NSMutableDictionary backed by Ruby String, Array, and Hash objects... if
>MetaRuby were done we could also write equivalents going the other way).