[r8] jumping into R

Booting notes

Language conditions and conformance to S8 semantics

• Multiline comments are not defined in R
• nil is NULL (or an UndefinedObject)
• S8 object model on top of "R6 OOP system"

Implementing Boot

Object model

• ToDo

SystemDictionary API

• properties:
  1. named self$propName
  2. indexed self[[propNameString]]
• #isNil: and #notNil: implementation
• #setClass
• #setVarNames
  1. #newArray
• #fnInSpec
  1. #setProtoOf:to:
  2. #newConstructor
• #linkNative:to:
• #bindCore

References

• [S8] Eden Framework
• R6 System - Introduction