Re: [Jscheme-devel] CVS-update

[Timothy J. H. <ti...@cs...>]

On May 21, 2004, at 3:15 PM, Ken Anderson wrote:

> I think you can generate the code with dclass/dclass.scm ( which now 
> needs to be changed to use either JS or JScheme.  It would write the 
> wrapper code for you.	
Nice!
Do you think this syntax could be easily modified to easily add javadoc 
comments somehow,
e.g. with a (javadoc {......}) command as below?
---Tim---

> 			
>
> (define-class
>
>   (package groupdemo)
>   (import "jscheme.*")
>
>         (javadoc {comments on the class...})
>   (public class GroupServerW)
>
>   (SchemeProcedure groupserver)
>
>          (javadoc {comments on the constructor ...})
>   (public GroupServerW (int port)
> 	  (.groupserver$# this (make-group-server port)))
>
>        (javadoc {comments on the instance method})
>   (public void quit () (groupserver 'quit))
>
>   (public static void main (String[] args)
> 	  (main args)))
>
>

I've long wanted to create a minimal JScheme in which all of the 
primitives were implemented
directly using javadot (we have this in jscheme/Bootstrap*.scm) and 
where the Java classes
implementing JScheme are implemented, metacircularly in JScheme using 
dclass as above!
(Some of this is already there, e.g. the reflection classes defining 
JavaField etc, are effectively
reimplemented in the Scheme modules jsint/compiler/Reflection.scm ...)

This would provide an implementation of JScheme entirely in JScheme 
(modulo the standard Java libraries).

Building a JScheme/dclass->JVM byte code interpreter a la KAWA would 
complete the transformation
of Java into Scheme and I would never have to write another Java class 
or rely on another Java compiler
again!  :)

---Tim---