At 10:56 PM +0200 on 4/7/00, M. Uli Kusterer wrote:
> Hmmm... could we probably store this in some config-file-like storage? If
>you had something like ResEdit's TMPL editor for these, we could provide a
>simple UI to edit stuff like this. Oh well, we'll find a way to achieve
>this.
Let me try once more to get the full magnitude of what I'm actually
planning of allowing in an efficient interpreter across: Dynamic
rewriting of the syntax at runtime.
You put those commands I showed in a script somewhere. They add the
specified syntax to the FreeScript language.
You could have a system-wide syntax addition in the Home stack, of course.
Here is an example, from a future FreeWeb web browser. Note that you
can even add to builtins like this. It is _very_ powerfull, to say the
least!
on openstack
get Add Command
1: "go" <url>
2: "go" <url> in new window
With "url" being one word of
"http://" <STRING>
"ftp://" <STRING>
"gopher://" <STRING>
With FreeTalk for 1
FreeWebGo(param(1), false)
With FreeTalk for 2
FreeWebGo(param(1), true)
set the GoCommandReference of me to it
pass openstack
end openstack
on closestack
Remove Command (the GoCommandReference of me)
pass closestack
end closestack
[I'm playing with the syntax -- comments are welcome]
> Ummm... I'd hate to have to rely on other applications, especially as I
>doubt all Unix or Linux computers have a compiler installed. I know most
>Linuxes ship with one, but I'd guess the average SysAdmin in a company
>would just leave it out to save disk space.
Doubtfull. You can't (really) use a Unix box without a linker, because
on Unix, you are given source code, not binaries for most everything
(unless you happen to use RedHat 6.1/Inhel and trust whomever made the
RPM)
^
that's not a typo
