Hmm... that's embarrassing... for some reason that didn't match my filter rule for the mailing list and since it happened to be from someone I knew, I thought it was directly to me... only when it showed up on the mailing list did I realize where my reply went.  Now I understand why I didn't know what the hell the message was about.

Julian

On 12/06/01 at 12:29 PM Julian Fitzell wrote:

>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).