[SocketInstruction::] The Socket Construct. Defining the socket 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 SocketInstruction::define_construct(void) { inter_construct *IC = InterInstruction::create_construct(SOCKET_IST, I"socket"); InterInstruction::specify_syntax(IC, I"socket IDENTIFIER TOKENS"); METHOD_ADD(IC, CONSTRUCT_READ_MTID, SocketInstruction::read); METHOD_ADD(IC, CONSTRUCT_VERIFY_MTID, SocketInstruction::verify); InterInstruction::allow_in_depth_range(IC, 0, 1); InterInstruction::permit(IC, INSIDE_PLAIN_PACKAGE_ICUP); } void SocketInstruction::verify(inter_construct *IC, inter_tree_node *P, inter_package *owner, inter_error_message **E) { *E = Inode::error(P, I"SOCKET_IST structures cannot exist", NULL); } @ What it does is to specify a symbol which is a socket 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. For how these are printed back, see //PlugInstruction::write_declaration//, which handles both plugs and sockets. = void SocketInstruction::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 *socket_s = TextualInter::new_symbol(eloc, T, symbol_text, E); if (*E) return; text_stream *equate_name = NULL; match_results mr = Regexp::create_mr(); if (Regexp::match(&mr, equate_text, U"~~> \"(%C+)\"")) { *E = InterErrors::plain(I"a socket cannot wire to a name", eloc); return; } else if (Regexp::match(&mr, equate_text, U"~~> (%C+)")) { equate_name = mr.exp[0]; } else { Regexp::dispose_of(&mr); *E = InterErrors::plain(I"bad socket syntax", eloc); return; } inter_symbol *eq = InterSymbolsTable::URL_to_symbol(I, equate_name); if (eq == NULL) { InterSymbol::make_socket(socket_s); Wiring::wire_to_name(socket_s, equate_name); } else { Wiring::make_socket_to(socket_s, eq); } Regexp::dispose_of(&mr); }