This adds:
- A global Date object (with `length` property and `now` function)
- The Date constructor (no arguments yet)
- The Date prototype (with `get*` functions)
With this patch, it's now possible to pass a Gfx::ShareableBitmap in an
IPC message. As long as the message itself is synchronous, the bitmap
will be adopted by the receiving end, and disowned by the sender nicely
without any accounting effort like we've had to do in the past.
Use this in NotificationServer to allow sending arbitrary bitmaps as
icons instead of paths-to-icons.
We currently use icon paths for this because I didn't want to deal with
implementing icon bitmap sharing right now. In the future it would be
better to post a bitmap somehow instead of a path.
If you invoke `js` without a script path, it will now enter REPL mode,
where you input commands one by one and immediately get each one
interpreted in one shared interpreter. We support multi-line commands
in case we detect you have unclosed braces or parens or brackets.
When the Heap is going down, it's our last chance to run destructors,
so add a separate collector mode where we simply skip over the marking
phase and go directly to sweeping. This causes everything to get swept
and all live cells get destroyed.
This way, valgrind reports 0 leaks on exit. :^)
Now that we have the beginnings of a parser, let's take the script to
run as a command-line argument and move all the test scripts into
/home/anon/js :^)
To run a script, simply use "js":
$ js my-script.js
To get an AST dump before execution, you can use "js -A"
This adds a basic Javascript lexer and parser. It can parse the
currently existing demo programs. More work needs to be done to
turn it into a complete parser than can parse arbitrary JS Code.
The lexer outputs tokens with preceeding whitespace and comments
in the trivia member. This should allow us to generate the exact
source code by concatenating the generated tokens.
The parser is written in a way that it always returns a complete
syntax tree. Error conditions are represented as nodes in the
tree. This simplifies the code and allows it to be used as an
early stage parser, e.g for parsing JS documents in an IDE while
editing the source code.:
A new IP address or a new network mask can be specified in the command
line arguments of ifconfig to replace the old values of a given network
adapter. Additionally, more information is being printed for each adapter.
Previously, we were assuming all declared variables were bound to a
block scope, now, with the addition of declaration types, we can bind
a variable to a block scope using `let`, or a function scope (the scope
of the inner-most enclosing function of a `var` declaration) using
`var`.
The above snippet is a MemberExpression that necessitates the implicit
construction of a StringObject wrapper around a PrimitiveString.
We then do a property lookup (a "get") on the StringObject, where we
find the "length" property. This is pretty neat! :^)
It's now possible to assign expressions to variables. The variables are
put into the current scope of the interpreter.
Variable lookup follows the scope chain, ending in the global object.
I always tell people to start building things by working on the thing
that seems the most interesting right now. The most interesting thing
here was an AST + simple interpreter, so that's where we start!
There is no lexer or parser yet, we build an AST directly and then
execute it in the interpreter, producing a return value.
This seems like the start of something interesting. :^)
