Class: STXJavaScriptLanguage

• Inheritance
• Description
• Instance protocol
  • accessing
  • accessing-classes
  • queries
  • source queries
  • testing

Inheritance:

   Object
   |
   +--ProgrammingLanguage
      |
      +--STXJavaScriptLanguage

Package:

stx:libjavascript

Category:

Kernel-Languages

Version:

rev: 1.22 date: 2019/12/30 18:39:58

user: cg

file: STXJavaScriptLanguage.st directory: libjavascript

module: stx stc-classLibrary: libjavascript

Description:

provide info about which tools are to be used for the
embedded JavaScript-like language in Smalltalk (not a real JavaScript,
that's why it's called STXJavaScript)

copyright
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             All Rights Reserved

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Instance protocol:

 id

Return a unique integer id of this language.
For languages built into the VM, it must be < 32.
This id is used as index to various structures used by runtime
(bytecode set ?).
cg: this ought to be better documented - I have no idea, where it is used

 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', etc.

 codeGeneratorClass

Answers a class that can generate code

 compilerClass

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

 compilerWithBreakpointSupportClass

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

 evaluatorClass

Answer a class suitable for doit evaluation 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.

 metaClass

will be used for new classes (in the class wizard)

 parserClass

Answer a class suitable for parsing a source code in '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.

 canBeCompiled

true if compilable in the browser

 bracketStrings

used for autoindent

 commentStrings

EOL comment

 methodDefinitionTemplateForSelector: aSelector andArgumentNames: argNames

given a selector, return a prototype definition string

Usage example(s):

STXJavaScriptLanguage instance methodDefinitionTemplateForSelector:#foo andArgumentNames:#() STXJavaScriptLanguage instance methodDefinitionTemplateForSelector:#+ andArgumentNames:#('aNumber') STXJavaScriptLanguage instance methodDefinitionTemplateForSelector:#foo:bar:baz: andArgumentNames:#('fooArg' 'barArg' 'bazArg')

 isSTXJavaScript

true iff this is the ST/X-javascript language