[Newbies] How can I create a script from within a script?

[Alex Schenkman]

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On Monday, February 28, 2011 at 6:05 PM, Gary Dunn wrote: 
> The direct answer is thay it depends on how you design tour interpreter. In Squeak we fiddle in a Workspace but that is not an interpreter. We invoke the interpreter with do it or evaluate. In other scripting languages the script is a file read by the interpreter. 
> In a smalltalk method, a statement begins with an object which receives messages represented by the remaining items in the statement. Your Ellipse would be such an object and it would have a method called forward.
> The less direct answer is a comment. No need to create a scripting language for kids because smalltalk is already that tool. Please read up on Squeaks history, and its creator Alan Kay. Start with Wikipedia. Then dig into Squeaks morphic interface  which removes most of the abstraction of scripting. Then look at eToys. It's all there, a rich and delightful world for children of all ages.
> 
> > On Feb 28, 2011 6:31 AM, "Steve Thomas" <sthomas1 at gosargon.com> wrote:
> > 
> > I am playing with the idea of creating a scripting language for kids.
> > 
> > So given the script below p1 is being set to an object/Player named Ellipse:
> > 
> > > script2
> > > | t1 t2 p1 |
> > > p1 := Ellipse
> > > t1 := 'forward'.
> > > t2 := 5
> > > 
> > How can I get it to "do/execute": p1 forward: 5
> > 
> > Stephen 
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