Portable Self?

Steve Dekorte dekorte at suite.suite.com
Tue Jul 30 20:41:29 UTC 1996


> On Tue, 30 Jul 1996, ian (i.r.) woollard wrote:
> > The problems I see are:
> > ...
> > - the dynamic nature of self code (e.g. potentially changing
> > constants/code on the fly-don't know whether Java allows this sort of
> > self modifying code!)

Sounds like you'll need a Self VM in Java.
Then you don't need to worry about a Self->Java byte code compiler.
Of course it would be slow.

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