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Re: [Help-smalltalk] Some small patches (not net-related)
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Mike Anderson |
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Re: [Help-smalltalk] Some small patches (not net-related) |
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Thu, 07 Apr 2005 19:23:36 +0000 |
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Paolo Bonzini wrote:
It's quite old indeed: :-)
:*>
I could have sworn that they never worked before.
The Java bindings are another example - I notice a new directory has
suddenly appeared, and in the meantime, everyone is getting excited on
comp.lang.smalltalk about Smalltalk/JVM. OK, I realize that they do
different things, but I still think that people would be very interested.
These are not in a released version, and are not ready from prime time
until I can get them to load from a JAR file, at the very least. The
configury should be checking for gcj and enabling them only if gcj is
found.
Fair enough, I suppose, but you have released them in the development
branch, and I'm sure I wasn't the only one who was curious about them.
Oh, and since I am writing about new things, here is something I've
worked on lately:
1) I've improved pragmas so that you can write C calls like pragmas, e.g.
getenv: aString
<cCall: 'getenv' returning: #string args: #(#string)>!
I like that - it means that in file-ins, C call methods will look more
similar to regular methods.
2) I've rewritten the parser as recursive descent. I hope this allows
us to design a scripting-like syntax, and depart from file-ins at last.
That also is very exciting.
I'm uploading (1) to the Arch repository right now.
>
Thanks for the patches.
Did you have an opinion on whether to use VW compatibility methods? I
only ask because I would prefer not to have to change my source code
when I next install a new version.
Regards,
Mike