rokucommunity / rokucommunity/brighterscript
Suggestion: expose/export component functions
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Description
Hi all! I'm relatively new reading and learning about Brighterscript language, and I like a lot this idea!
One thing I found when exposing functions is that sometimes I forgot to declare the <function> tag in the XML file, I know there is a runtime warning when you try to call a non-existent function in a node using callFunc, but I consider that could be a great idea to unify this in Brighterscript code, I think in something like this:
expose function sayHello (name as string) as string
return "Hello, my name is " + string
end function
Reserved word can be expose or export, I like expose, but maybe someone has a better argument for using export.
That's it!
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No files, tests, or entry points are named. Start by reviewing how BrighterScript currently declares functions and maps XML tags, then resolve whether expose or export is appropriate and define the syntax and compiler/runtime behavior before implementation; done means functions can be exposed from BrighterScript without a separate XML declaration.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- typescript
- Domain
- compilers
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
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- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100