I have no more doubt that you're going somewhere interesting with this stuff. ^_^ Funny, I woke up this morning out of a dream in which someone online had started making something very similar to Penknife, and here you are, taking at least some degree of inspiration from failcall.
(Actually, the codebase I dreamed about was written in Java, was organized almost exactly the same way as my Arc code (probably thanks to dream magic), and was actually a language for distributed computing rather than just for extensible syntax. If you hit all those marks, then I'd be outright scared of you, lol.)
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"it unifies the concepts of objects, classes, methods, functions, and prototypes"
A few years ago I was working with someone who used the phrase "add an else-if" when talking about almost any new feature. But between 'extend, failcall, prototype inheritance, scope shadowing, and operator precedence, it turns out we have an awful lot of sophisticated terms and frameworks for what amounts to adding an else-if. ^_^
"(Actually, the codebase I dreamed about was written in Java, was organized almost exactly the same way as my Arc code (probably thanks to dream magic), and was actually a language for distributed computing rather than just for extensible syntax. If you hit all those marks, then I'd be outright scared of you, lol.)"
Sorry, I'm not going anywhere close to Java code. You must be thinking of some other magic person. :P
