I provide the API of the whole Compiler Package for the case that the input is sourcecode. (if there is already and AST, call #generate (to compile) or #evaluate directly on the node)
a pre-configures compiler instance can be requested with:
- Smalltalk compiler - a Class compiler
The compiler instance (actually: the compilation context) needs to be setup. See #class: #source: #noPattern: #requestor: for the most important accessors (more are in the accessing protocol). See the class comment of CompilationContext for more information.
The final step is one of three actions: * parsing: parse source and return an AST. * compile: parse and compile, return a CompiledMethod * evaluate: parse, compile, evaluate and return result
Example:
This returns a CompiledMethod.
Smalltalk compiler source: 'test 1+2'; class: Object; compile.