Re: [F-Script-talk] newbie questions

[Philippe M. <phi...@wa...>]

> But is there a reason that the KVC for the variable names  
> and references to super could not be easily done in the compiler?  

No. It's just that it is not implemented yet.

> Each F-Script class could have a base class, either an objective-C  
> class or a previously defined Smalltalk class and two additional  
> dictionaries for added member variables and methods. If you then hook  
> into the compiler, KVC for the variables could be done automatically  
> and super would be available as well. The compiler would just have to  
> distinguish if it is still at the Smalltalk layer for resolving  
> symbols or already at the boundary to Objective-C.
> Does that make sense?

Yes. However, given that the Objective-C runtime offers support for dynamically creating classes (with instance variables), adding methods and 
so on, I think it would be better to use it directly.

Philippe