Re: Approach to add a new language

["Germán Arias" <germanandre@gmx.es>]

El jue, 24-09-2015 a las 12:19 -0700, Per Bothner escribió:
> 
> On 09/24/2015 11:28 AM, Germán Arias wrote:
> > Hi all, I'm new at Kawa, although I have some experience in scheme, but
> > not in java. I read that Kawa can be used to implement other programming
> > languages in java platform. So I would like hear your suggestions to do
> > this. I'm thinking on implement Objective-C, but I don't know how this
> > works. Parse the objective-C files to generate the corresponding Sheme
> > files is enough? Or is necessary other considerations? Thanks in advance
> > for your help.
> 
> Objective-C might be a challenge on the JVM, partly because C is a challenge
> on the JVM.  Plus you have to define a mapping from the Objective-C class/object
> model to the Java model.
> 
> Perhaps you could implement a subset of Objective-C - but why?
> 
> I wouldn't use Scheme as an intermediate language (though one could).
> One problem is that makes it hard to get line number information correct.
> Better (and faster) to parse Objective-C  and generate the Expression
> objects that Kawa uses.

Thanks for your advice. 

P.S. After trying again, I'm able to compile an Objective-C runtime to
android. So, I will be able to compile directly Objective-C on
android :)

Thanks
Germán