--- On Mon, 11/24/08, Stuart Sierra wrote:
> An interesting idea: hacking the Java compiler to perform
> source-code transformations:
> http://www.iam.unibe.ch/~akuhn/blog/2008/11/roman-numerals-in-your-java/

That's pretty cool, but not really a new idea--the JastAdd [1] and Polyglot [2] 
compilers have been used to produce some pretty fun Java extensions, although 
none so fun as Roman numerals. 269 just provides an official way to abuse the 
compiler ;)

Dave

[1] http://jastadd.cs.lth.se/web/extjava/index.shtml
[2] http://www.cs.cornell.edu/projects/polyglot/


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