Class: SmalltalkLanguage

• Inheritance
• Description
• Instance protocol
  • accessing
  • accessing - classes
  • mimicry
  • testing
  • utilities - source code

Inheritance:

   Object
   |
   +--ProgrammingLanguage
      |
      +--SmalltalkLanguage

Package:

stx:libbasic

Category:

Kernel-Languages

Version:

rev: 1.12 date: 2009/11/12 13:53:17

user: stefan

file: SmalltalkLanguage.st directory: libbasic

module: stx stc-classLibrary: libbasic

Description:

provide info about which tools are to be used for smalltalk code

Instance protocol:

 name

Answers a human-readable name of myself:
'Smalltalk' for SmalltalkLanguage,
'Ruby' for RubyLanguage
...

 sourceFileSuffix

Answers a default suffix for source files, i.e.
'st' for Smalltalk, 'js' for JavaScript or 'rb' for Ruby'

 compilerClass

Answer a class suitable for compiling a source code in 'my' language

 explainerClass

Answers a class used by browser and debugger to
show some hints about the code. It is OK to return
nil, which means that there is no explainer for given language.

 formatterClass

Answer a class suitable for prettyPrinting (indenting) code in 'my' language.
It is ok to return nil, which means that the browser will not be able to prettyprint.

 parserClass

Answer a class suitable for parsing a source codein 'my' language

 sourceFileReaderClass

Answers a class that can be used for reading & compiling source files

 sourceFileWriterClass

Answers a class is used for source file writing (i.e. file-out)

 syntaxHighlighterClass

return the class to use for syntaxHighlighting (prettyPrinting) this class -
this can be redefined in special classes, to highlight classes with
Lisp, Prolog, ASN1, Basic :-) or whatever syntax.

 , anObject

Emulates symbol behavior. This is sometimes required
as Smalltalk language is used by legacy code to access
current language. Future versions should contain class
Locale.


** This is an obsolete interface - do not use it (it may vanish in future versions) **

 asSymbol

Returns a language symbol. This is sometimes required
as Smalltalk language is used by legacy code to access
current language. Future versions should contain class
Locale.


** This is an obsolete interface - do not use it (it may vanish in future versions) **

 isSmalltalk

true iff I represent the smalltalk language

 methodTemplate

return a method definition template string