Re: ForTran-Ada + flamette + question

[markb@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Mark Biggar)]

In article <8605210805.AA20308@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> larry@JPL-VLSI.ARPA writes:
>Anyone have an idea how to do run-time binding of keys to commands in Ada?

This problem has a simple solution.

There are two types of function in something like EMACS that you want to
be able to bind to a key (or key sequence):  built-in functions and
user-defined functions (usually written in a lisp like language).

Now if you assign to each function an id code (e.g. negative numbers for
built-in functions and positive numbers for user-defined) then bind the
key sequence to the id code.

To interpret the key sequence just look at the id code, if it denotes a
built-in you select the code for the built-in using a humongous case
statement; otherwise pass the id code for the user-defined function
off to the interpreter.  Note that the same id codes for the built-in
functions can be used in the data structures that are used to build
the user-defined functions (you have the same problem with binding built-in
functions into the user-defined functions as you do with binding them to
key sequences).

Mark Biggar
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