Re: const_missing hook for function-styleconstants (Rubycocoa-devel 234) - RubyCocoa

On Tue, 14 Mar 2006 13:11:58 +0000, Jonathan Paisley wrote:
>>  I'm worry about compatibility of this change. The feature  
>>  const_missing
>>  is available on ruby-1.8.0 or later.
> Do know how many RubyCocoa users are still using ruby 1.6?
> 
Binary packages for 10.3 depend on ruby 1.6.8. It seems that 
most of users use binary backage for 10.4 or tarball of source.

http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=44114

>>  I think we can treat this symbols (NS...) as constants.
> Looks reasonable. I got a runtime warning:
> 
> warning: rb_define_const: invalide name  
> `_NSConstantStringClassReference' for constant
> 
> Small patch to only define constants with leading [A-Z]:
> 
Thanks! I think these consntans of Cocoa are not needed in
ruby.

@@ -286,6 +286,7 @@
   $notimpl_cnt = 0
   consts.each do |info|
     reconfig_info(info)
+    next unless info.name =~ /\A[A-Z]/ # ignore private constants
     ret_a.concat gen_def_c_func(info, 0)
     ret_b.concat gen_def_rb_mod_func(info, 0)
     unless /\Aconst NS\w+CallBacks\z/ =~ info.rettype # 
NSHashTableCallBacks...


-- 
kimuwa wataru



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