PS. I suddenly discovered that tab-completion has been added to the command-line interpreter! Paolo, you should really spend more time advertising the new features you're putting in.
NEWS FROM 1.8.5 TO 1.95.4
o The command-line interface supports readline's completion (for filenames,
globals, and method keywords)
It's quite old indeed: :-)
2001-02-16 Paolo Bonzini ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
* libgst/complete.c: New file
* libgst/complete.h: New file
...2001-02-17 Paolo Bonzini ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
* libgst/input.c: Made from complete.c and part of lex.c
* libgst/input.h: Made from complete.h and part of lex.h...
The Java bindings are another example - I notice a new directory has suddenly appeared, and in the meantime, everyone is getting excited on comp.lang.smalltalk about Smalltalk/JVM. OK, I realize that they do different things, but I still think that people would be very interested.
These are not in a released version, and are not ready from prime time until I can get them to load from a JAR file, at the very least. The configury should be checking for gcj and enabling them only if gcj is found.
Oh, and since I am writing about new things, here is something I've worked on lately:
1) I've improved pragmas so that you can write C calls like pragmas, e.g.
getenv: aString <cCall: 'getenv' returning: #string args: #(#string)>!
2) I've rewritten the parser as recursive descent. I hope this allows us to design a scripting-like syntax, and depart from file-ins at last.
I'm uploading (1) to the Arch repository right now.
Thanks for the patches.
Paolo
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