Objective Modula-2 wrote:
J. David Bryan wrote:
I'm still not clear on Adriaan's original point, though. Does GPC currently support Objective-C message passing syntax,
No, but we now talking about the future of GPC.
I wouldn't say it is crucial in the sense that it is a requirement to support interfacing to Objective-C. However, if the target language you translate to supports Objective-C interfacing already and does so well, then you can save yourself the effort translating all the way down to the low-level C API of the Objective-C runtime. You can translate to the (hopefully) higher level statements of the target language and let the target language's compiler do the heavy work for you.
Yes, it is not a requirement, but it does make things easier to implement. And with more and more system (and other) software (for all kinds of platforms) written in C+ and Objective-C it becomes more and more important to be able to interface with C++ and Objective-C.
Regards,
Adriaan van Os