Concept: Native Language Escapes

[scurtyParticipant]

I wonder if a type of “native language escape” functionality could be added to Monkey. Similar to C how you can escape from the C language and then you can program in Assembly almost seamlessly. However, since monkey is translated to multiple languages, I figure it wouldn’t be too difficult to tell the translator to ignore all syntax from a certain directive to the specified end, then include the raw code in the appropriate build/target. Explanation by Example:

Monkey

' Here is monkey code Function DoSomething:Void() End #Native<JS> ' Write Raw JS(Emscripten) function do_something() { // Write some JS only code } #EndNative #Native<CPP/C> ' Write Raw C/++ int do_something() { // Write some C/++ only code return 0; } #EndNative

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' Here is monkey code   Function DoSomething:Void()   End   #Native<JS> ' Write Raw JS(Emscripten)   function do_something() {       // Write some JS only code }   #EndNative     #Native<CPP/C> ' Write Raw C/++   int do_something() {       // Write some C/++ only code       return 0; }   #EndNative

For now just keep the identifier scope within the pre-processor directive things.
Not sure how practical this would be in practice, but I’m sure it would be useful in very special cases.

Watchya’ll think?

[codifiesParticipant]

are you assuming functions that would only return a “native” value type like an int or double etc ?

as you can import whole C files what would be the difference with this approach ?

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