blog post on invokedynamic

[Charles Oliver Nutter]

� wrote:
> And the idea of the MOP is that the meta object should have the same 
> interface for all dynamic languages.

That is the intent of Attila's project. It provides a set of common 
interfaces/classes for method invocation and property lookup (both with 
either indexed or named parameters), type coercions (like GString to 
String and back), and composability (to allow a runtime to e.g. failover 
to Java dispatch if it optz out of handling a call itself).

The primary things missing from dynalang that I was were:

* First-class representation of a closure or passed function. This would 
help make closures a bit more translatable across languages
* Ability to query for a "callable" that could then be cached for future 
calls. This would fit better into inline caches, method handles, indy, 
and so on. Along with this would probably need to come a way for 
"callables" to be invalidated if things change.

- Charlie