for 3.10 I guess :)
I did not had any time to fix the repository nor to look at the  
condenseSources bug.
I will give a try to look at it and hope adrian will be able to help  
there if I cannot find it.

Stef

On 19 août 06, at 20:28, Lukas Renggli wrote:

>> > Note 1: I see the pragma selector as a message that can be sent  
>> to an
>> > object to configure it somehow, binary selectors usually have a
>> > slightly different meaning.
>>
>> I don't get that.
>> Which object is #primitive: sent to, and how does it configure it?
>
> No problem, you are not the only one :-(
>
> After the compilation the message #primitive: with the given arguments
> is performed on the parser. This is then changing the current method
> to be a primitive. It works the same for #primitive:module: where
> there is just slightly different code executed. Have a look at the
> implementors of those two messages in a 3.9 image.
>
> Now, how do I know what pragmas I should perform on the parser and
> what pragmas not? It is hardcoded right now, but that could be solved
> nicely as I suggested in my original mail that caused all this
> discussion. So the parser-class could then declare some of its methods
> (namely #primitive: and #primitive:module:, and also #apicall:module:
> and #cdecl:module: if the FFI people would accept) as methods to be
> called after the compilation. Very extensible. Very modular. Very much
> oop. And no patching.
>
>> > Note 2: It would be easy to allow pragmas like this <* 6>, <,
>> > 'world'>, basically one line of code that needs to be updated.
>>
>> I would have thought that <* 6> would also need to be written < *  
>> 6> , in order
>> to parse correctly? Anyway. What you are saying is that it's easy  
>> to allow
>> binary selectors?
>
> Yes you are right. #<* would probably be parsed as a binary selector
> as well, I am not that much aware what exactly is considered a binary
> selector in Squeak. I guess with spaces that would be fine. It is a
> similar problem as they have in C++ with their nested template
> declarations ;-)
>
> If the community likes to have pragmas with a binary selector I can do
> that. Users have to make sure that they put a space upfront.
>
>> > I published it to http://source.squeakfoundation.org/inbox, please
>> > have a look. The tests do all run, I only changed one method  
>> that does
>> > the parsing of the selector. The correction algorithm is the  
>> same as
>> > the one used to correct selectors of normal message sends in your
>> > code.
>>
>> Thanks.
>> I've had a look, and it works great.
>
> Great, then we should maybe include it in the next version. It is only
> a small change (to be clear: it adds a feature for the interactive
> compiler mode, it doesn't change anything else). How to proceed?
> Should I submit to Mantis? How does that work as 3.9 gamma is out now?
>
> Cheers,
> Lukas
>
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> Lukas Renggli
> http://www.lukas-renggli.ch
>