On Sun, 10 Jan 2016, Nicolai Hess wrote:

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> 2016-01-10 13:14 GMT+01:00 Levente Uzonyi <leves at caesar.elte.hu>:
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>       On Sun, 10 Jan 2016, Nicolai Hess wrote:
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>             pharo fogbugz issue: 17359 MessageNotUnderstood: receiver of "keywords" is nil
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>             is this valid pragma syntax:
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>                 <apicall: bool 'SetCursorPos' (long long) module: 'user32.dll'>
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>       This is not a pragma, but the special syntax used by FFI. AFAIK it predates pragmas.
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> Ah, ok.
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>             our (pharo) parser can not parse this (does not recognizes the
>             "selector parts" (apicall:module:) right)
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>             Any recommendations how to fix this
>             - fix RBParser or
>             - change this pragma, for example, like this
>               <apicall: #(bool SetCursorPos (long long)) module: 'user32.dll'>
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>       There's nothing to fix here. Either you change your parser, compiler and decompiler to support this syntax, but knowing how things work in Pharo, this is not an option
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> Why is this not an option?

It was a goal to get rid of this syntax[1].

Levente

[1] https://lists.gforge.inria.fr/pipermail/pharo-project/2010-February/022534.html

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>       , or change the methods with these callouts, introducing another incompatibility between Pharo and the rest, to use pragmas and create a custom parser, compiler and decompiler to be able to compile FFI callouts into methods when such pragmas are present.
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> As we now included this FFI-Examples, where this is used, I would like to find a way that works in both, pharo and squeak.
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> @esteban
> is this already supported by "our" FFI and just not by the parser used for syntax highlighting or wasn't this package supposed to be in Pharo ?
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>       Levente
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>             nicolai
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