On Mon, 4 Dec 2000, Dave Thomas wrote:

> I'm thinking it would be an interesting idea to have a Ruby reference
> implementation where almost everything was implemented in Ruby (much as 
> most of Smalltalk is implemented in Smalltalk).
> 
> The stripped-down interpreter provides the bare minimum, and the rest
> is written in Ruby.

I've wondered what the thing called "miniruby" (which is 
built as part of building Ruby) has in it, and what it
leaves out.  I have not had time to explore it though.
I wondered about its utility for really small machines,
like those running Linux from one floppy, etc. 
> 
> As well as making the semantics clearer, this might also be important
> later on if we wanted to provide a browser that permitted browsing of
> (for example) class Array.

ClassSpace -- like ObjectSpace but for all the classes
the interpreter has access to, whether there be instances
of them or not, would be nice.
> 
> 
> Dave
> 
> 
	Hugh
	hgs / dmu.ac.uk