[Hecl-devel] Progress

[David N. W. <da...@de...>]

Some more progress:

*) I realized it's possible to include a .hcl file directly in the .jar,
so that's where the Hecl script is loaded from in the j2me .jar.  This
means that to create new Hecl applications for J2ME, all you have to do
is update 'script.hcl' in the .jar file!

*) I pressed the java.net.URLClassLoader into service so that we can
load external code, like so:

load org.hecl.http.HttpModule build/http_standard/
puts [http http://www.hecl.org]

*) I am experimenting with an 'ObjectThing' type that just holds
objects.  If we can be reasonably sure that the code won't turn the
object back into a pumpkin... I mean string... then we can use this to
hold fancy types that have no string representation without resorting to
handles and hash tables, which is what Tcl uses.  This might lead to an
un-Tclish direction, but it brings benefits if you want to hold on to
some Java object, and have it GC'ed when it should be, instead of having
to do it yourself by managing reference counts or something.

Ciao,
-- 
David N. Welton
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