>> I'll try to build the tests and come up with a better solution.
>
> You what I would love to spend 2/3 weeks just coding in the new compiler and 
> making sure
> that it has the right abstractions/messages to deal with issue like that.

The problem is that the New Compiler is not really in a better state
than the old compiler. Of course it has more objects and is much
easier to extend, but all in all it is a mess too. This is mostly due
to the fact that the system below it changed quite a bit in the past
years (pragmas, properties, closures, primitives, new bytecodes, ...)
and that the New Compiler had to be patched and changed quite heavily
to accommodate these new requirements that it was not designed for.
Maintaining and fixing the New Compiler got so extremely expensive
that it is questionable if this is still a viable platform? Ask Jorge
and Marcus.

Lukas

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Lukas Renggli
http://www.lukas-renggli.ch

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