Is SOMELIBRARY then reachable at all? SOMELIBRARY basicPerform: #doSomething withArguments: (Array with: anObject ), ?
On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 2:58 PM, Nicolas Petton <[email protected]>wrote: > Le lundi 21 mars 2011 à 10:17 +0100, Richard Durr a écrit : > > 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? > > No, you can call JS functions with: > #basicPerform: and #basicPerform:withArguments: > > Cheers, > Nicolas > > > 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 > > > > > > > > > > > >
