Smalltalk code generator for other lanuages?

Hi,

is it possible to use, for instance, SmaCC to translate Smalltalk code into 
another language?

Günther

Words to the wise, Guenther Schmidt <gue.schmidt@web.de> wrote:

>Hi,
>
>is it possible to use, for instance, SmaCC to translate Smalltalk code into another
 language?

Hello,

there has been some talk about this earlier this month if I am not
mistaken, though I think that "SmaCC" was not named explicitly.

Guenther Schmidt <gue.schmidt@web.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> is it possible to use, for instance, SmaCC to translate Smalltalk code into anothe
r language?

Of course, you can translate Smalltalk using SmaCC (although other
approaches would probably be usable).
However, it is not clear what you mean by "translating into another
language". To preserve the semantics of the language, you would
basically have to create a suitable Smalltalk runtime environment in
that other language (things like automatic GC, polymorphic method
lookup, bounds checking on all array accesses etc.).
Once you've done that, you've implemented yet another Smalltalk VM.
Congratulations! But this was probably not what you wanted.

Cheers,
Hans-Martin

Guenther Schmidt wrote:
> Hi,
>
> is it possible to use, for instance, SmaCC to translate Smalltalk code
> into another language?
>
> Günther

You are possibly better off using systems designed for this purpose, for
example:

http://www.program-transformation.org/Stratego/WebHome



HTH,

R
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