On Sun, Dec 16, 2012 at 9:41 PM, Igor Stasenko <siguctua@gmail.com> wrote:

On 16 December 2012 19:42, Ciprian Teodorov <ciprian.teodorov@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> Can somebody tell what is the correct way of creating anonymous classes in
> Pharo?
> When I say correct way I mean something that does not break the image or the
> tools.
>
> The thing is that we can use them in NativeBoost and I cannot stop running
> into errors because of these anonymous classes.
> Is it just me or maybe we should do something about it...
>
> I am really frustrated about this thing because everybody knows that we can
> do it... but at the end of the day it is not working properly,
> and has bizzare side effects.
>

Depends what you wanna do.

> What about an official API for doing this? Or at least a way to check if
> your class is anonymous so that we can refactor the tools to ignore them or
> something...
>

Using anonymous classes with tools which written to work with public ones
will never work.
There are too many places on different levels of system with strong
assumptions about how things are organized.
Perhaps if you tell, what you trying to do, we can see how to deal
with problems.

I'm writing a FFI generator for Pharo that uses libclang to parse header files and generates nativeboost mapping as output.�

The beast is almost working (I can get libclang mapping, the core.h header)but there are still some small issues. So, that's why I've been poking at nativeboost ;)

At the end I expect to have something that will generate correct ffi interface, and that will not bloat the image with thousand of visible classes, so that the user might get a chance to understand something of what I'm generating...

The thing is this evening after 4-5 hours of looking around my conclusion is. In pharo 1.4 the anonymous subclasses are breaking the tools, and in the brand new pharo 2.0 the refactoring tools (RBNamespace & company) are not working as they should.... so i'm stuck with 1.4 for now (and still telling to myself that I do not want to bloat the image with many classes)

Well that's about it for now...�

P.S. wellcome to bizarre world of metaprogramming :)

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Best regards,
Igor Stasenko.