Patrick Li wrote at 02/16/2011 11:07 PM:
Hello everyone,
I'm writing a toy Scheme-ish interpreter for fun, and am trying to add
some Smalltalk flavor to my Scheme system. I'm running into a
bootstrapping problem though, and would like to ask someone for a
nudge in the right direction.
Would you call this problem "infinite regress"?
I'm not sure why you're trying to do it this way -- there are easier
ways to add interesting influences of Smalltalk to Racket, but perhaps
you have more sophisticated intent than that.
One suggestion: if you have not already, look at the metaobject protocol
of CLOS. He has tackled an extensibility problem that I think might be
related to what you're doing with the overriding of SYMBOL.
I assume you're already familiar with the Smalltalk-80 object model and
its metaclasses.
One nice things about Racket is that you can prototype new languages
like this in a couple days or even a couple hours, so you can rapidly
try and refine approaches, or even try a few different ones.
--
http://www.neilvandyke.org/
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