On Tuesday, March 19, 2002, at 11:38 PM, Ned Konz wrote:

> I'm interested in using the Slang support (CCodeGenerator/TParseNode and
> friends) for emitting C for embedded systems.
>
> However, the existing classes won't work for more general cases, where 
> there
> may be more than one object of a particular class. The Plugins convert
> instance variables into globals and throw away self.

Sad, isn't it?

> I was wondering whether anyone has come up with versions of these that 
> differ
> from the Plugin versions as follows:
>
> * instance variables become structure members rather than globals
> * don't throw away self; instead pass as initial pointer argument

Well, I've done an Objective-C converter that does this.  It turns the 
Smalltalk objects into Objective-C objects and Smalltalk message sends 
into Objective-C message sends.

If this sounds helpful, I can try and dig it up.

> Oh yes, and I'm generating the Smalltalk with the scripting system. It
> promises to be an interesting system: draw state diagrams, drag tiles 
> into
> scripts, then hit the "generate C" button...

Very, very interesting!

Marcel

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