module Virtual # Instruction is an abstract for all the code of the object-machine. Derived classe make up the actual functionality # of the machine. # All functions on the machine are captured as instances of instructions # # It is actully the point of the virtual machine layer to express oo functionality in the set of instructions, thus # defining a minimal set of instructions needed to implement oo. # This is partly because jumping over this layer and doing in straight in assember was too big a step class Instruction end # the first instruction we need is to stop. Off course in a real machine this would be a syscall, but that is just # an implementation (in a programm it would be a function). But in a virtual machine, not only do we need this instruction, # it is indeed the first instruction as just this instruction is the smallest possible programm for the machine. # As such it is the next instruction for any first instruction that we generate. class Halt < Instruction end end