Re: final Groovy JSR?

Hi Bill,

Thanks a lot for your explanations.
I haven't been able to answer earlier, I'm sorry.

Some comments inline.

On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 8:24 PM, Bill Shannon <bill.shannon@...> wrote:
> [...]
>  You need a spec that's sufficient for someone else to implement
>  Groovy support without reference to your code.  I don't know that
>  much about Groovy, but you might want to split the spec into a
>  language/compiler portion and a runtime portion (assuming runtime
>  support beyond what's in Java SE is needed).

What do you mean by language/compiler portion, and runtime portion exactly?
I just want to be sure I understood correctly.
For the language part, we need to explain the semantics of the
language, its grammar, etc.
For the runtime part, you mean things like the libraries? ie. a
closure class, a GString class, etc.
Is that what you meant?

> Do you want someone
>  else to be able to implement a Groovy compiler that generates code
>  that works with your runtime?  And vice versa?  And if the Groovy
>  compiler or interpreter needs to be available to applications at
>  runtime, how does that work and what level of mix-and-match do you
>  want to support?