On 25 February 2012 17:02, Stéphane Ducasse <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> Also, I remember in OpenCroquet Squeak could parse positional arguments of >> the form ogl glThis(x,y,x); glThat(x,y,z); -- doesn't it make sense to bring >> this back, since most of the OpenGL code examples on the internet are in >> this form ? > > I guess that you want to know since you ask: the answer is NO! > It makes no sense to do that.
When it was a time to decide what syntax to use we had a discussion about it, and Croquet guys said, that they prefer normal keyword based syntax, despite they having this syntax extension for positional arguments. NBOpenGL methods are generated from opengl specs. and its easy to change the output of generator, without doing monkey work of rewriting 2000+ methods. So, if you can't live without it, you can create own bindings with any other syntax you want by changing the code generator: http://www.squeaksource.com/OpenGLSpecs > >> On an unrelated note, I'm confused by this ConfigurationOf/Gofer/Montecello >> system. How do people new to Pharo find out what these URLs and special >> configuration loading code are ? > > Read the monticello and metacello chapters on pharo by example 2 > > and look at MetacelloRepository. > >> Seems like everyone is just copying and pasting code from forums into >> workspaces. Couldn't these code fragments for loading configurations be >> loaded automatically via a URL or something ? > > -- Best regards, Igor Stasenko.
