Re: [Pharo-dev] Code generation for ASTs with syntax errors

On 13 May 2015 at 08:35, Marcus Denker <marcus.denker@inria.fr> wrote:

Only three methods are needed to allow generating executable methods from such an AST: the SyntaxErrorNotification is raised at runtime instead of compile time.

I can hear the noise of eyebrows raising in the compiler community :) Syntax errors shouldn't require immediate fixing during compilation per se, but there should be a way to deal with them "at compile time" —whatever that means for us. For instance, faulty methods could have a flashy icon in the browser; I think I'd even color the whole package-class-protocol-selector in red if either of them contain faulty methods. -- Damien Pollet type less, do more [ | ] http://people.untyped.org/damien.pollet