Re: Under the hood.

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> On 4-Jun-09, at 3:25 PM, tobeythorn wrote:
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> > --- In iolanguage@..., Jeremy Tregunna  
> > <jeremy.tregunna@> wrote:
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> >> That's part of the parsing subsystem. When the lexer matches certain
> >> patterns (like numbers or strings), it will create a token of that
> >> particular type. When the parser gets it, it'll create an object of
> >> that type with that value. They are still messages, as everything the
> >> lexer processes (except comments, though that could be changed) are
> >> messages.
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> >> Regards,
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> >> Jeremy Tregunna
> >> jeremy.tregunna@
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> > Jeremy,
> > But a message (or tree of messages) must, at the end of the day, be  
> > sent to real objects (right?). If primitive objects like numbers and  
> > strings are not the tails of trees of messages, what are? To which  
> > object would the message "Hello world" or 12345 be sent?
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> Strings and Numbers *ARE* objects just like any other. They just  
> happen to be created in C code rather than Io code. You can manipulate  
> number objects just like any other.
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> Literals are sent to the Lobby, which is unlike other objects in that  
> given: foo 5 <-- 5 won't be executed in the context of foo, like: foo  
> bar <-- would, 5 will be evaluated against the Lobby. Special case,  
> but that's how things are.
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> > Thanks for your insight,
> > -Tobey
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> Regards,
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> Jeremy Tregunna
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