SOMELIBRARY basicPerform: #doSomething withArguments: (Array with: anObject ), ?

On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 2:58 PM, Nicolas Petton <petton.nicolas@gmail.com> wrote:

Le lundi 21 mars 2011 � 10:17 +0100, Richard Durr a �crit :

> As far as I can see, the only way to call external Javascript is by
> writing Javascript-Code directly into a method like so:
> doSomethingWith: anObject
> � � �{'return SOMELIBRARY.doSomething(anObject); '}
>
>
> is this correct?

No, you can call JS functions with:
#basicPerform: and #basicPerform:withArguments:

Cheers,
Nicolas

> The OMETA based Smalltalk->JS translator seem to let one use st-syntax
> for direct access to javascript like so:
>
>
> doSomethingWith: anObject [
> � � SOMELIBRARY doSomething: anObject.
> ]
>
>
> and CoffeeScript can use JS seamlessly in the same way.
>
>
> Best regards,
> RD
>
> On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 7:36 PM, Nicolas Petton
> <petton.nicolas@gmail.com> wrote:
> � � � � Hi,
>
> � � � � I would like to share a project I'm working on on my spare
> � � � � time: Jtalk
> � � � � Smalltalk.
>
> � � � � http://nicolaspetton.github.com/jtalk
> � � � � https://github.com/NicolasPetton/jtalk
>
> � � � � Jtalk is an implementation of the Smalltalk language that
> � � � � compiles into
> � � � � JavaScript.
>
> � � � � Some features:
> � � � � - it is written in itself (including the parser/compiler)
> � � � � - it is self-contained
> � � � � - it compiles into efficient JS code
> � � � � - it uses the Squeak chunk format
> � � � � - Pharo is considered as the reference implementation
>
> � � � � I think Jtalk can be compared to CoffeeScript[1],
> � � � � Objective-J[2] or
> � � � � Clamato[3], from which it reuses some ideas and code.
>
> � � � � Jtalk includes an IDE with a class browser, transcript and
> � � � � workspace, an
> � � � � HTML canvas similar to Seaside and a jQuery binding.
>
> � � � � It is still a young piece of code, and some important features
> � � � � are still
> � � � � missing/incomplete.
>
> � � � � Cheers,
> � � � � Nicolas Petton
>
> � � � � [1] http://jashkenas.github.com/coffee-script/
> � � � � [2] http://cappuccino.org/
> � � � � [3] http://clamato.net
>
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