lib/cocoa: intro the cocoa library to wrap cocoa, foundation and app_kit

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+# This file is part of NIT ( http://www.nitlanguage.org ).
+#
+# Copyright 2014 Alexis Laferrière <alexis.laf@xymus.net>
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+# The Foundation Kit provides basic Objective-C classes and structures
+module foundation is c_linker_option "-framework Foundation"
+
+in "ObjC Header" `{
+       #import <Foundation/Foundation.h>
+`}
+
+# Base of the Foundation framework class hierarchy
+extern class NSObject in "ObjC" `{ NSObject * `}
+end
+
+# String of the Foundation Kit
+#
+# Created using `Text::to_nsstring`.
+extern class NSString in "ObjC" `{ NSString * `}
+       super NSObject
+end
+
+redef class NativeString
+       # Get a `NSString` from `self` with the specified `length`
+       fun to_nsstring(length: Int): NSString in "ObjC" `{
+               return [[NSString alloc] initWithBytes:recv
+                       length:length
+                       encoding:NSASCIIStringEncoding];
+       `}
+end
+
+redef class Text
+       # Get a `NSString` from `self`
+       fun to_nsstring: NSString do return to_cstring.to_nsstring(length)
+end