[ioke-dev] Re: Re: Tuples for Ioke

[Ola Bini <ola.bini@gmail.com>]

Good work, Martin.

Martin Dobmeier wrote:
> I've just pushed a first prototype (including some simple specs) to 
> http://github.com/mdobmeier/ioke/tree/tuples. This is what you can do 
> right now:
>
> - Create tuples via "DefaultBehavior Literals tuple" or the empty 
> message (I moved the latter to DefaultBehavior Literals as discussed a 
> couple of days ago).
> - For each newly created tuple appropriate accessor methods are 
> generated (_1, _2, ... _n). I chose to not use "pass" because the 
> generation of those accessors is really simple and done in just a few 
> lines of Java code. Furthermore, I was not sure if "pass" would work 
> under all circumstances. Suppose you add a message called "_1" to 
> Origin that does something completely different. Sending "_1" to a 
> tuple would now call Origin's version. Expected behavior, but because 
> of that I thought it more appropriate to generate the messages. By the 
> way, is there a way to intercept all message sends to an object? Like 
> Groovy's invokeMethod()?
No, I specifically DON'T like the invokeMethod approach. If you really 
need to intercept all messages, you need to make sure you have no mimics.

> - The only other supported methods are "arity" and "asList".
>
> It's not much, but it works and can be built upon.
Very good.
> Unfortunately there's not yet a CLR equivalence. I tried, but frankly 
> I lost my first battle with Visual Studio 2008. I couldn't figure out 
> how to import the Ioke sources into a new Solution. Google didn't tell 
> me very much either. Anybody's got any suggestions? Ola, you're not 
> working with VS I suppose?
The Java code actually maps fairly cleanly to the CLR stuff. It's OK 
though - Ill fix that when merging. And no, I really don't use Visual 
Studio... =)
If there is someone with VS knowledge on the list, it would be 
appreciated if that person could donate appropriate solution-files, 
though...


Cheers

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