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Anybody try writing an iPhone app with MoonScript -> Lua -> Wax -> Objective C?

• chriseidhof 15y ago
  Exactly! I think they only need some kind of way to add syntax for obj-c style messages. If only objc would remove the square brackets (and stay true to smalltalk), the syntax would be so much nicer: NSArray* array = NSArray alloc init autorelease NSDictionary* dict = NSDictionary dictionaryWithObjectsAndKeys:obj,key,nil ...
  • jacques_chester 15y ago
    > Exactly! I think they only need some kind of way to add syntax for obj-c style messages. http://olua.sourceforge.net/ http://olua.sourceforge.net/ ? > If only objc would remove the square brackets (and stay true to smalltalk), the syntax would be so much nicer: Objective C is (or at least it used to be, not sure ATM) a strict superset of C. One of the ways this is achieved is through having orthogonal syntax for the smalltalk-ish bits compared to classic C.