Re: "Hello world!" without a public class?

"Chris Uppal" <chris.uppal@metagnostic.REMOVE-THIS.org> writes:


  I have no idea what you would prefer instead, but I just
  made up this:

  Rename ?java.exe? (the JVM) to ?new.exe? and modify the
  interpretation of its command line arguments so that one can
  write on the command line:

new Main().start()

  , which will create a new object of the class ?Main()? and
  send the message ?start()? to it (Java lingo: will invoke
  the non-static message invocation ?start()? with a new
  object of class ?Main? as the target object).

  Of course, the JVM has to be rewritten for this. It does not
  work with today's ?java.exe?.

  The general JVM syntax would become

      "new"
      <classname>
      "("
      <parameterlist>
      ")"
      { "."
        <methodname>
        "("
        <parameterlist>
        ")"
        }

  , where the parameterlist might be empty and might contain
  literals, instance creation expressions and method invocations
  (a very small subset of Java, which can be implemented easily).