Laurent Sansonetti
lsans****@apple*****
Wed Jun 21 07:58:04 JST 2006
Hi,
We just discussed this topic Jonathan and I, and here are what we
propose.
First, new public APIs:
OSX.relaxed_syntax = true|false
This flag would enable or not the relaxed/friendly/cool syntaxes. It
could be enabled according to a flag in the install.rb config phase,
and the default could be true.
OSX.register_syntax_mapper { |receiver, message, args | ... } # -> id
OSX.unregister_syntax_mapper(id)
The first method would register a new mapper in the system, as a Proc
object. The block will be called at runtime with the receiver object,
message and arguments from the context. The block can return a
selector value (a String), or nil if it cannot do the mapping.
The second method can be used to unregister a mapper, given its ID.
The ID is returned by the first method.
Internally, mappers would just be added in an internal Array.
By default, we would propose 3 mappers:
- one for removing the trailing '_' if necessary ;
- one for the symbol/value... syntax
- one for the inline Hash syntax
Additional mappers would be stacked in an Array.
#analyze_method would be modified to:
- remove oc_ prefix and check predicate
- consult additional mappers if OSX.relaxed_syntax is true
- if mappers return nil (or OSX.relaxed_syntax is false), do the
default mapper
- return the translated selector
Ideas?
Cheers,
Laurent