Is Coral using the Opal compiler for its syntax extensions?

- Francisco


> On 3 Jun 2015, at 16:21, Marcus Denker <[email protected]> wrote:
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> 
>> On 03 Jun 2015, at 17:12, Ben Coman <[email protected]> wrote:
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>> On Wed, Jun 3, 2015 at 4:14 PM, Francisco Garau
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> On 3 June 2015 at 05:56, Ben Coman <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> I think that would confuse me, and maybe break syntax highlighting.
>>>> It *looks* like a message send to nothing.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> That might be a good thing as there is no object needed to resolve the
>>> method lookup. You already have the "method" to evaluate, which is obviously
>>> the block.
>>> 
>>> It's a bit heretic, but the more I think, the more I like it.
>> 
>> Well, if its an itch you need to scratch, go ahead :)
>> But it might be a struggle to get the community to accept it into
>> Pharo, and hence possibly a maintenance burden for you each Pharo
>> release.
> 
> It would make a nice tutorial how to hack the compiler for experiments…
> 
>    Marcus
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> 

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