I haven't really tried Coral yet, so please forgive my ignorance, but have you thought of using a modified block syntax to define methods? I'm thinking of something like this:
[factorial | "Answer the factorial of the receiver." self = 0 ifTrue: [^ 1]. self > 0 ifTrue: [^ self * (self - 1) factorial]. self error: 'Not valid for negative integers' ] [min: aMin max: aMax | ^ (self min: aMin) max: aMax ] [+ aNumber | "Refer to the comment in Number + " aNumber isInteger ifTrue: [self negative == aNumber negative ifTrue: [^ (self digitAdd: aNumber) normalize] ifFalse: [^ self digitSubtract: aNumber]]. ^ aNumber adaptToInteger: self andSend: #+ ] Evaluating one of these expressions could return a compiled method without a class. And since we use the ">>" to retrieve a method, we could use the "<<" operator to add it to a class's method dict. I think it would make a very simple and consistent syntax. And maybe we could even modify the entire system to support it. I wouldn't mind seeing a couple of extra brackets and a vertical bar in the browser if the method's syntax is made more consistent. Anyway, it's just an idea... Best regards, Richo On Sat, Mar 5, 2011 at 3:58 PM, Stéphane Ducasse <stephane.duca...@inria.fr>wrote: > > > What is coral all about? There seems to be no documentation except a > little tutorial. But the tutorial does not make much sense to me. It > explains the installation of coral and the result is that you can run a > script from the commandline. Well, that is possible anyway. So where is > coral located. Between positioning it as a shell replacement in the mailing > list and the "just runs a shell script" is a huge space where it could be > actually located. Any hints are appreciated. > > We want a scripting syntax to be able to builds script with pharo so we > have coral. > In coral you write > > Point >> mydistance > [ > ^ x * x > ] > > Point class>>myNewPointWithx: anInt withY: another > [ > > ] > > With OSProcess we access os behavior and yes I should fix the > configurationOf... > > We have a more compact class creation syntax > > [ > Object <| MyPoint > iv: 'myx' > "not sure that this is like that I'm watching a movie so not pharo " > ] > > Stef > > > > > > Norbert > > > > > > On 05.03.2011, at 08:58, Stéphane Ducasse wrote: > > > >> > >> On Mar 4, 2011, at 2:17 PM, Alexandre Bergel wrote: > >> > >>> Hi! > >>> > >>> After I've tried Hazel, I was wondering what is the status of Coral. I > would love to move away from Bash. > >> > >> me tooo. > >> > >>> I am just wondering. > >> > >> Use coral it is working. > >> We should get more and more user. > >> I'm waiting for after next week to introduce a better way to handle > file.st, file.cor..... > >> When hazel will be working we will use it but this is orhtogonal to > Coral. > >> > >> We have documenting FS and we should improve it too. > >> > >> Luc told me that he remove the icon to get the start up faster > >> Stef > >> > >>> > >>> Cheers, > >>> Alexandre > >>> -- > >>> _,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;: > >>> Alexandre Bergel http://www.bergel.eu > >>> ^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;. > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >> > >> > > > > > > >
