Re: invoke-static

[Jim White <jim at pagesmiths dot com>]

Daniel Bonniot wrote:
> > * Some of the Kawa run-time (gnu.bytecode, gnu.math, gnu.lists for
> > example) are generally useful libraries, and I don't want to have
> > them depend on the Kawa compiler. 
>
> I can only support this goal. I am using gnu.{bytecode,expr} and
> packages they depend on to generate bytecode in my compiler for the Nice
> language. Therefore, it makes sense to have no dependancies on scheme,
> or other language specific code.
> ...

I can agree with that as well.

My points were:

#1) I would like Ant to be the base build script language.  Rather than 
duplicate the common functions between the makefile and Ant build 
scripts, make could use Ant for those things.

#2) I don't think the metalanguage stuff should be in a language that is 
not Scheme/Kawa or at least Java.

As for #2, last week I updated the Ant build script to do the latest 
metalanguage stuff.  But it is terribly tedious and not generally useful 
and violates #1 (although it meets #2 by being Java which is an 
improvement over make).

Jim