OpenEuphoria

Re: Eu improvements (part 4)

• Posted by c.k.lester <euphoric at cklester.com> Jan 05, 2007
• 685 views

I messed up the paradigm... here it is corrected:

c.k.lester wrote:
> 
> It would work a little differently for OOP. You'd need something like the
> following:
> 
> myCars = newObject("myCars") -- myCars previously defined as a holder of car
> records
>                              -- this is just an index to the internal list of

newInstance("automobile_database","myCars")

so 'myCars' is now a database of automobiles.

> objects
> auto = newObject("automobile") -- automobile previously defined as a record
> of car data
>                                -- this is just an index to the internal list

this really should be

auto = newInstance("automobile")

or better

newInstance("automobile","auto1")

which creates a new automobile called auto1.

With this paradigm, we have no global constants required.

> of objects
> property(auto,"maker","Ford")

-- modify a property
property("auto1","maker","Ford")

> -- then to add the automobile to the myCars list/db:
> addObject(myCars,auto) -- or somesuch

-- add the auto to the database
addObject("myCars","auto1")

> This is possible without any change to Euphoria right now. I bet some
> current incarnation of a Euphoria OOP library does this exact thing.
> Dot notation will be syntactic sugar, right? Not that there's anything
> wrong with that. :)