On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 8:42 AM, Thierry Goubier <thierry.goubier@gmail.com> wrote:

Le 23/10/2014 08:23, phil@highoctane.be a ��crit :

On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 8:17 AM, Thierry Goubier
<thierry.goubier@gmail.com <mailto:thierry.goubier@gmail.com>> wrote:

�� Le 23/10/2014 08:09, phil@highoctane.be <mailto:phil@highoctane.be>
�� a ��crit :

�� How hard would it be to parse such a file with this kind of content?

�� https://github.com/mitsuhiko/__flask/blob/master/examples/__minitwit/minitwit.py
�� <https://github.com/mitsuhiko/flask/blob/master/examples/minitwit/minitwit.py>

�� Not hard. A bit of work on PythonParser2.

Well, I meant "a file like this in Smalltalk" :-) Still, a cool idea of
yours!

That in Smalltalk may be better, especially to induce people to extend it with Pharo afterwards :)

That's the idea indeed.

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But Pharo has issues with long methods (such as a single, long file). I wrote some code to split methods for SmaCC at the AST level (parse, split, create sub-methods, replace code with call to method, compile), but it works in SmaCC generated code; I didn't really try to make it general.

How long is long?

Now, the point is to see all that as a stream, cut methods at appropriate places and compile code under a WAComponent subclass.

I don't know about SmaCC but I think I can do something with PetitParser and Smalltalk compile:

Phil

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�� This would generate a WAComponent subclass with methods in it,
�� register
�� the thing and go for it.

�� The level of Python in it look not too difficult to convert. But it
�� relies on a framework for which I can't answer. What is jinja ?

Jinja is the template engine: http://jinja.pocoo.org/

Ok,

Thierry