Webscript for GS (Was: Re: Smalltalk for GS )

[Christian Edward Gruber]

As nice as this is, I'd personally rather have WebScript for GS.  I found it
to be a very easy and powerful prototyping language.

regards,
Christian.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Stefan Urbanek" <urbane@decef.elf.stuba.sk>
To: <discuss-gnustep@gnu.org>
Sent: Sunday, January 07, 2001 10:56 AM
Subject: Smalltalk for GS (Was: Re: Some thoughts about GS)


>
> I am working on Smalltalk interpreter for GNUstep - StepTalk. It is meant
mainly
> for scripting GS apps or for talking to registered named DO objects or
apps.
>
> Some features:
>     - Smalltalk syntax
>     - block closures
>     - exception handlig ([ "block ..."] handler: [ "exception handler
> block..."].)
>     - additions to GS classes instead of own classes (i.e. NSArray do:,
select:,
> detect:, ... NSNumber to:do: ...)
>     - one or more methods in script
>     - scripting descriptions
>         - allow/deny selectors for particuliar classes (i.e. you can deny
> selector removeFileAtPath:handler: of NSFileManager to prevent untrusted
scripts
> against deleting your files)
>         - map binary selector to normal selector (i.e. ',' is mapped to
> stringByAppendingString: for NSString class or '@' is mapped to
objectForKey: for
> NSDictionary class)
>     - tools:
>         stalk - talk to DO objecs and apps
>         stexec - just executes scripts
>
> It is almost working, but currently I have some problems with it.
Mysterious
> segfaults before main() and different behavior of library/executable with
and
> without debug=yes.
>
> If there is someone who has a time, I would be very happy, if he/she could
look
> at it.
>
> Thank you,
>
> Stefan
>
>
>
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