Hi Igor,<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 8:23 PM, Igor Stasenko <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:siguctua@gmail.com">siguctua@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Hello,<br>
<br>
i thought that to conserve the space, it would be good to use a<br>
symbols for primitive name and module name<br>
in my methods.<br>
Since all of my native-boost enabled methods using same primitive, so<br>
i thought that i can just put following:<br>
<primitive: #primitiveNativeCall module: #NativeBoostPlugin><br>
and therefore, save some space , since declaration like following:<br>
<primitive: 'primitiveNativeCall' module: 'NativeBoostPlugin'><br>
adds extra two strings to the pragma, which attached to method.<br>
(What is interesting, that a first literal of compiled method, using<br>
symbols for these names, instead of strings..<br>
While pragma keeps original copies of strings, and therefore wasting<br>
extra space, which i want to avoid).<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Look at STParserST80>>parsePrimitive. Abstract the "self failUnless: currentTokenFirst == $'. self parseString"'s to a method or block and make them accept either strings or symbols and email me the fix :)</div>
<div><br></div><div>HTH</div><div>Eliot</div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<br>
What i found, that syntax highlighting turns the rest of method's<br>
source in red color (like if there is a parse error),<br>
while parser is perfectly ok with such syntax, and accepts such<br>
methods without any problems.<br>
<br>
Moreover, its 100% safe to use symbols instead of strings for prim/module names,<br>
since they seem used by compiler anyways, and i even double-checked it<br>
with VMMaker, that it can handle symbols instead of strings for named<br>
primitives.<br>
>From Interpreter's comment:<br>
<br>
primitiveExternalCall<br>
"Call an external primitive. The external primitive methods<br>
contain as first literal an array consisting of:<br>
* The module name (String | Symbol)<br>
* The function name (String | Symbol)<br>
<br>
so, a syntax highlighting is a bit annoying, and i'd like to fix that.<br>
Any clues where to look at?<br>
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Best regards,<br>
Igor Stasenko AKA sig.<br>
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