1.104.1 Send methods

name ->_value: char_array

Modify the contents of the name, preserving its identity. This method supports name->syntax and should only be used at boot time to solve specific host-language binding problems.

name ->equal: name

Succeeds if the argument name is the same name as the receiver. See notes on uniqueness with class name and name->initialise.

name ->initialise: text=char_array

Create a name from the argument text. Note that this method will only be called by the PCE object creation system if name<-lookup fails (i.e. if this is a new name). This method copies the text and then invokes name->register on itself to insert itself into the symbol table.

name ->register:

Inherits description from: name<-lookup

name ->syntax: {uppercase}, char

If the word is strictly lowercase, all characters are mapped to uppercase and the nametable is updated accordingly.

The second argument is the word-separator character. All occurrences of the current word-separator will be mapped on this character.

This method is exclusively to support pce->syntax.

See also

pce->syntax