| PIZZA |
| A substantial companion
to Java |
| Index of Frequently Asked Questions
|
Below is an index of the questions. Click on a question or section
header to jump to that section of the answer sheets.
Is Pizza
fully compatible with Java? Are there Java programs which Pizza
does not accept?
Can
Pizza binaries be used as applets?
Where
can I get a reference to Pizza's extensions of Java?
Where is Pizza
heading? Does Sun know about/support the Pizza project?
The pizza
compiler doesn't run. Help!
When I
try to run Pizza I get ``Can't find class pizza/compiler/Main''
I can
compile a class, but when I try to run it I get ``Can't find
mypackage.MyClass''
How can I
install Pizza on OS/2,the Macintosh OS, Windows 3.11, etc.?
How can I
define a named first-class function?
Would it be possible to make the
case-classes into fully functional inner classes, with different
initializers and so forth?
"private protected" does not
work.
Is the
Pizza compiler a preprocessor or a full-blown compiler?
How does the performance of the Pizza
compiler compare to that of javac? How does the generated
code compare?
Are
sources for the compiler available?
The
Pizza compiler does not seem to automatically compile auxiliary
classes, like javac does.
Does the Pizza compiler do any
code optimization?
Does pizza
run with JIT compilers (e.g. Kaffe)?
Does pizza
support JAR files?
How can I
generate Java code as the output of the compiler, rather than class
files?
Using the Java reflection API, I can
find the names, types and values of object fields at runtime. What
happens when the fields have function types or other Pizza
types?
I'd like to use
Pizza to generate abstract syntax trees (AST's) for Java programs.
Is there a compiler switch that will output AST's? If not, how can
I access the them?
When I compile my
pizza-code into Java, I see several lines of the type throw new
Error(); // inserted for safety. What kind of error do they
indicate?
Why did you choose the name Pizza?
What are current developments and future plans for Pizza and GJ?
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Answers by Martin Odersky, Christian Kemper, Enno Runne and John
Maraist.
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