Re: StepTalk with ObjectiveC

[Stefan Urbanek]

Hi,

On 2004-04-02 09:19:49 +0200 Philip Mötteli <Philip.Moetteli@tele2.ch> wrote:

> I'm trying out StepTalk. I actually would like Objective-C syntax instead of 
> the Smalltalk syntax. So I make
> 
>       Environment loadModule:'ObjectiveC'.
>       STLanguage allLanguageNames.
> 
> Which gives: (Smalltalk, Smalltalk)
>

In StepTalk there are two kinds of 'plugins/bundles': modules and languages. 
They have different APIs, as they serve different purposes.

Environment loadModule:'something' is convenience method for loading a bundle 
from predefined directories and to apply bundle's scripting information (import 
named objects/classes...).

allLanguageNames will give you names of all available LANGUAGE bundles from 
Library/StepTalk./Languages.

> 
> I see the ObjectiveC module in 'Local/Library/StepTalk/Modules'. Is there any 
> ObjectiveC for StepTalk?
> 

ObjectinveC bundle you see is a bundle which provides classes and methods to 
access ObjectiveC runtime (such as object named Runtime or the category method 
of NSObject methodNames or instanceMethodNames for class objects).

Currently there is no ObjectiveC language bundle, therefore you can not use 
ObjectiveC syntax for StepTalk :-(

Perhaps some day ... if there was ObjectiveC parsing framework...

Stefan Urbanek
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