Class: SmalltalkLanguage

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

Inheritance:

   Object
   |
   +--ProgrammingLanguage
      |
      +--SmalltalkLanguage

Package:

stx:libbasic

Category:

Kernel-Languages

Version:

rev: 1.38 date: 2019/06/27 10:38:47

user: cg

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:

 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

 compilerClassForInteractiveTools
( an extension from the stx:libtool package )

Answer a compiler class suitable for usage in interactive tools.
Such class may better integrate into the IDE and register for undo/redo
and/or do more checks and so on. Defaults to #compilerClass

 compilerWithBreakpointSupportClass

Answer a class suitable for compiling a source code with breakpoints
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 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.

 , anObject

Emulates symbol behavior. This is sometimes required
as 'Smalltalk language' is used by legacy code to access
the current language setting.
Future versions should contain class Locale.
cg: this is crab, who needs this?


** 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.
cg: this is crab, who needs this?


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

 bracketStrings

used for autoindent

 commentStrings

EOL comment

 methodDefinitionTemplateForSelector: aSelector andArgumentNames: argNames

given a selector, return a prototype definition string

usage example(s):

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

 isSmalltalk

true iff I represent the smalltalk language