Re: [Help-smalltalk] Some small patches (not net-related)

[Paolo Bonzini]

> PS. I suddenly discovered that tab-completion has been added to the 
> command-line interpreter! Paolo, you should really spend more time 
> advertising the new features you're putting in.

NEWS FROM 1.8.5 TO 1.95.4

o   The command-line interface supports readline's completion (for 
filenames,
   globals, and method keywords)

It's quite old indeed: :-)

2001-02-16  Paolo Bonzini  (address@hidden)

       * libgst/complete.c: New file
       * libgst/complete.h: New file
...

2001-02-17  Paolo Bonzini  (address@hidden)

       * libgst/input.c: Made from complete.c and part of lex.c
       * libgst/input.h: Made from complete.h and part of lex.h

...

> 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.

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)>!

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.

I'm uploading (1) to the Arch repository right now.

Thanks for the patches.

Paolo