Oct. 31, 2011
10:16 a.m.
Hello! Some weeks ago i asked, weather code in Smalltalk is an object too or not. The answers were not that clear as i expected! :-( Now i would like to put up the question, if there is a paradigm change in software engineering slowly coming up in the Smalltalk community towards class factory, code, that generates code, that is jitted immediately to generate further classes to finally be instantiated? E.g. the regexp compilercompiler SmaCC. How "dense" has a Smalltalk code system to be that it starts to emerge from itself? Means: When starts Pharo refactoring its own code or AST parser itself? Maybe a too unclear question, but i hope someone can understand what i mean ... :-) tnx in advance, Guido Stepken