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Objective C Bridge
Bruce Mitchener edited this page May 10, 2013
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There is the start of an Objective C bridge available.
Notably, it lacks support for objc_msgSend.
We need a design for how this should work, preferably informed by other implementations. Some Common Lisp implementations have Objective C bridges and may be a good place to look.
In Dylan, this may require some compiler support, similar to direct-c-ffi or the higher level c-ffi.
We should be able to have melange read in BridgeSupport files and generate the appropriate bindings as defined in interface files like we do for C APIs.
The Objective C 2.0 runtime provides enough support to allow Dylan programs to create new subclasses of Objective C classes as well as to expose new method implementations.