About two Ring questions.

[Antonio F.S.]

Hello colleagues of the precious Ring language. :-)

Now that I'm on holiday I can have a few days to take another look at
Ring. How wonderful!
However it would be very interesting to be able to transpile for the web
to JS, and as I haven't reached that point of researching the Ring
documentation, is there such an option or is it in the pipeline to be
integrated in later versions? Another question would be if in the same
way, you could contemplate the option of having statically declared
variables.

Best regards.
Antonio F.S.

[Irwin Rodriguez]

Hi Antonio,

>>  "However it would be very interesting to be able to transpile for the web to JS"

There's no a transpiler for JS and I don't think it is in the plans for the future. However, the ring language specifications and the tokensLib are a good starting point for those who decide to create their own.

>> " the option of having statically declared variables"

You can use the TypeHints library to add the type information. 

regards.

[Ilir Liburn]

Hello Antonio,

>>  "However it would be very interesting to be able to transpile for the web to JS

Ring is a high level language. It is difficult to transpile to another high level language because each high level language defines its sets of the rules (implicit type conversion for example). It is much simpler to talk about high level to low level language translation because Ring is written in it (C language in this case).

>> " the option of having statically declared variables"

Each global variable is a static variable. You're probably asking about the static member of the class. That's simple, you only have to create a variable having the same name like the class

MyClassAndStaticMember = new MyClassAndStaticMember
MyClassAndStaticMember.myStaticMember = 123

class MyClassAndStaticMember
myStaticMember

and then you load it as a file

load "staticmember.ring"

object = new MyClassAndStaticMember

? MyClassAndStaticMember.myStaticMember

? object.myStaticMember

Last line is showing you that myStaticMember is also accessible through object instance (prints NULL instead of 123).

This is incorrect, static member should be accessible only trough class identifier, not the object instance.

However, there is a solution to this (by using the package and import keywords).

Greetings,

Ilir

[Antonio F.S.]

Ok. Thank you.

Regards.

Antonio F.S.

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El 18/6/24 a las 19:12, Irwin Rodriguez escribió:

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[Antonio F.S.]

Hello Ilir.

As always, your answers are definitely clear and resolute.

Thank you very much.
Best regards.

Antonio F.S.

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El 19/6/24 a las 21:21, Ilir Liburn escribió:

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[Ilir Liburn]

Hello Antonio,

You're Welcome.

Greetings,

Ilir