On 25.02.2009, at 21:26, Alexandre Bergel wrote:
>> please
>> try it out and let me know what you would expect from a real
>> Smalltalk
>> scripting environment.
>
>
> Something that would really push me in using Coral is an intelligent
> prompt. A list of the things the prompt should do:
> - crawling into the history of typed commands using up and down key
> arrow
> - tab completion (classes and method name)
> - colored output
> - Ctl-D to quit
> - Keybinds:
> * Ctlr-A beginning of the line
> * Ctrl-E end of the line
> * Alt- -> / Alt- <- to jump words
>
>
Microsoft's OO shell (I forgot the name. And it changed multiple times)
is quite cool. It shows how typical Shell things fit into OO nicely.
e.g.
dir | sort
would communicate via a pipe, but and OO one, that is, objects
describing files, not text
would be exchanged.
And, they had a cool framework for making these commands. Your script
inherits from
the general superclass all the cool stuff, e.g. command line parsing
and things like that.
Smalltalk would be very powerfull as an OO shell...
Marcus
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