As far as I can see, the only way to call external Javascript is by writing
Javascript-Code directly into a method like so:
doSomethingWith: anObject
{'return SOMELIBRARY.doSomething(anObject); '}
is this correct?
The OMETA based Smalltalk->JS translator seem to let one use st-syntax for
direct access to javascript like so:
doSomethingWith: anObject [
SOMELIBRARY doSomething: anObject.
]
and CoffeeScript can use JS seamlessly in the same way.
Best regards,
RD
On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 7:36 PM, Nicolas Petton <[email protected]>wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I would like to share a project I'm working on on my spare time: Jtalk
> Smalltalk.
>
> http://nicolaspetton.github.com/jtalk
> https://github.com/NicolasPetton/jtalk
>
> Jtalk is an implementation of the Smalltalk language that compiles into
> JavaScript.
>
> Some features:
> - it is written in itself (including the parser/compiler)
> - it is self-contained
> - it compiles into efficient JS code
> - it uses the Squeak chunk format
> - Pharo is considered as the reference implementation
>
> I think Jtalk can be compared to CoffeeScript[1], Objective-J[2] or
> Clamato[3], from which it reuses some ideas and code.
>
> Jtalk includes an IDE with a class browser, transcript and workspace, an
> HTML canvas similar to Seaside and a jQuery binding.
>
> It is still a young piece of code, and some important features are still
> missing/incomplete.
>
> Cheers,
> Nicolas Petton
>
> [1] http://jashkenas.github.com/coffee-script/
> [2] http://cappuccino.org/
> [3] http://clamato.net
>
>
>
