Le 10 sept. 2014 17:32, "phil@highoctane.be" <phil@highoctane.be> a ��crit :

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Le 10 sept. 2014 17:21, "kilon alios" <kilon.alios@gmail.com> a ��crit :
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> how about introducing a secondary parser on top of the code editor that you can enable disable at will and can create "code shortcuts" using such symbols ? it will then store them as regular pharo syntax without affecting the pharo system. Its an idea I am thinking playing with but not so much for special class names but rather omitting the class names altogether and create shorter version of calling a method that is more English like, like :
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> open "mydoc.pdf" in documents.
> display pdf.
> go to page 4.
> print page��

I would do that with a dedicated petit parser grammar.

As for highlighthing the styler stuff is unknown territory for me.

In the GT doc / pillar stuff, I saw Interesting stuff going on on Doru's blog.

Phil
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> On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 6:13 PM, phil@highoctane.be <phil@highoctane.be> wrote:
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>> Of course. But there are some other things that are available.
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>> ��, `, ? comes to mind.
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>> Phil
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>> On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 4:59 PM, Marcus Denker <marcus.denker@inria.fr> wrote:
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>>> On 10 Sep 2014, at 16:38, phil@highoctane.be wrote:
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>>> > I was playing around with the idea of using stuff like in jQuery, where we do have the�� '$' function that would do a lot of things.
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>>> > But one cannot create such elements as
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>>> > SlotClassBuilder>>validateClassName
>>> >�� �� �� ��"Validate the new class name. Raise warning if invalid."
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>>> >�� �� �� ��name
>>> >�� �� �� �� �� �� �� ��detect: [ :c | (c isAlphaNumeric or: [ c = $_ ]) not ]
>>> >�� �� �� �� �� �� �� ��ifFound: [ :c | InvalidGlobalName signal: 'Invalid character: ''' , c printString , '''' for: name ].
>>> >�� �� �� ��name first canBeGlobalVarInitial
>>> >�� �� �� �� �� �� �� ��ifFalse: [ InvalidGlobalName signal: 'Class name does not start with a valid Global Var Initial' for: name ]
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>>> > doesn't let us.
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>>> > Is there a reason for that (ok, we have $ for chars, and #, ... and other things but still).
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>>> The problem is that $ is part of the smalltalk grammar for symbols, $ can not be a variable name.
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>>> ��$asdasd
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>>> is parsed as a message send to the character a, for example.
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>>> �� �� �� �� Marcus
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