[PlugInstruction::] The Plug Construct. Defining the symbol construct. @ This is a pseudo-construct: it looks like an instruction in textual Inter syntax, but specifies something else, and does not result in an |inter_tree_node|. = void PlugInstruction::define_construct(void) { inter_construct *IC = InterInstruction::create_construct(PLUG_IST, I"plug"); InterInstruction::specify_syntax(IC, I"plug IDENTIFIER TOKENS"); METHOD_ADD(IC, CONSTRUCT_READ_MTID, PlugInstruction::read); METHOD_ADD(IC, CONSTRUCT_VERIFY_MTID, PlugInstruction::verify); InterInstruction::allow_in_depth_range(IC, 0, 1); InterInstruction::permit(IC, INSIDE_PLAIN_PACKAGE_ICUP); } void PlugInstruction::verify(inter_construct *IC, inter_tree_node *P, inter_package *owner, inter_error_message **E) { *E = Inode::error(P, I"PLUG_IST structures cannot exist", NULL); } @ What it does is to specify a symbol which is a plug in the current tree: this results in an entry in the symbols table for the current package (which will always be |/main/connectors|, in fact) but not an instruction. Surprisingly, this can actually result in a socket rather than a plug, but only in the case where the plug asks to wire to something existing in the current tree already. = void PlugInstruction::read(inter_construct *IC, inter_bookmark *IBM, inter_line_parse *ilp, inter_error_location *eloc, inter_error_message **E) { text_stream *symbol_text = ilp->mr.exp[0]; text_stream *equate_text = ilp->mr.exp[1]; inter_tree *I = InterBookmark::tree(IBM); inter_symbols_table *T = InterBookmark::scope(IBM); inter_symbol *plug_s = TextualInter::new_symbol(eloc, T, symbol_text, E); if (*E) return; InterSymbol::make_plug(plug_s); text_stream *equate_name = NULL; int to_name = FALSE; match_results mr = Regexp::create_mr(); if (Regexp::match(&mr, equate_text, L"~~> \"(%C+)\"")) { equate_name = mr.exp[0]; to_name = TRUE; } else if (Regexp::match(&mr, equate_text, L"~~> (%C+)")) { equate_name = mr.exp[0]; } else { Regexp::dispose_of(&mr); *E = InterErrors::plain(I"bad plug syntax", eloc); return; } if (to_name) { Wiring::make_plug_wanting_identifier(plug_s, equate_name); } else { inter_symbol *eq_s = InterSymbolsTable::URL_to_symbol(I, equate_name); if (eq_s == NULL) Wiring::wire_to_name(plug_s, equate_name); else Wiring::make_socket_to(plug_s, eq_s); } Regexp::dispose_of(&mr); } @ The following writes a valid line of textual Inter to declare a plug or socket, appearing at level |N| in the hierarchy. = void PlugInstruction::write_declaration(OUTPUT_STREAM, inter_symbol *S, int N) { for (int L=0; L \"%S\"", Wiring::wired_to_name(S)); } else if (Wiring::is_wired(S)) { WRITE(" ~~> "); InterSymbolsTable::write_symbol_URL(OUT, Wiring::wired_to(S)); } else { WRITE(" ?"); } }