Re: CECIL

Hello Hayden,

Cecil is not on the priority list in the Gobo project.

Cecil is used to call Eiffel code from C. So Eiffel code compiled
with gec cannot be called from a C program. But it can be called
from C code which is itself called from an Eiffel program. So if
your program is in Eiffel, before calling the C code you can pass
to C the address of the Eiffel functions you want to call back
from C, using Eiffel's $ operator.

On the other hand, if your program is in C, and what you want to
do is to use the Eiffel code making up the Gobo compiler, you can
compile the Gobo Eiffel code with ISE's EiffelStudio compiler, and
then use Cecil (which is supported when the Eiffel code is compiled
with EiffelStudio) to call Gobo Eiffel's code from C.

-- 
Eric Bezault
mailto:[email protected]
http://www.gobosoft.com


Hayden Smith wrote:
> I've been putting together a plugin for Qt Creator for working with Gobo Eiffel projects. So far, I've just implemented basic highlighting of reserved keywords, predefined keywords and types defined in ELKS.
> 
> The next step is to form an abstract syntax tree so I can implement autocompletion and other context-dependent actions. Ideally, I would like to use classes from gec to do this and figured that the best way to work with them was via CECIL. The only reference I could find though was that it hadn't been implemented yet. Is this a feature that's high on the priority list, or are there any other ways of integrating the gec classes that I could use? (Qt is written in C++)
> 
> Qt uses MIME types to associate editors with file extension patterns with specific editors. I couldn't find a specific type for Eiffel source code, so I just used 'application/eiffel-source'. Is there a specific MIME type I can use or would anyone like to suggest an alternative?




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