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nikodemus / foolang

A toy programming language.
https://foolang.org
MIT License
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extensions to builtins work in repl #828

Closed nikodemus closed 2 years ago

nikodemus commented 2 years ago 
> extend Integer
| method ding "Dong!"!
| end
ERROR: Integer does not understand: #__addInstanceMethod:

This is not as simple as it looks like, being very much a question of how the metacircular interpreter works. I'm pretty sure I was pushing towards this before I went on hiatus...

nikodemus commented 2 years ago

Closed as duplicate of #833, pretty much. Except that is a feature.