start using & External symbol table PLEASE!!!

[Rob Cozens]

>Has anyone attempted to create a external symbol table?

Only in my head, Kevin.

The model I use as a starting point is the HyperCard utility, 
CompileIt!, written by Tom Pittman.  It was designed as a symbol 
table for compiling HC externals.

CompileIt! shipped with predefined symbols for most Mac OS 9 ToolBox 
calls and  unique parameter & record structure field names.

It also included a window where one can define one's own symbols. 
One enters the symbol name and type, eg:

	Constant
	ROM global variable
	Record field
	External command or function
	Text callback
	Binary callback
	Raw inline code

Other info is entered depending on the symbol type, eg: value for 
constants, variable type & offset for record fields.

Somewhere I have CompileIt! specs for the "glue" required to define 
system calls; but I was never able to fully understand it or define 
any undefined system call that supported call backs.

And, of course, a symbol table stack is worthless unless & until the 
Run Rev team educates the Script Editor/compiler to recognize & use 
it.
-- 

Rob Cozens
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