[Grace-core] Constructors
James Noble
kjx at ecs.vuw.ac.nz
Fri Oct 29 03:51:49 PDT 2010
I had another look over this, and added a bit more to the wiki page.
I think that by renaming the constructors / initialisers / makers we can
make the code more graceful - but there are still quite a few issues
here to work out - particularly wrt how the type parameters work.
----
{{{
init capacityDelta<T>(capacity: Num, capacityDelta: Num) = {
elt = new Array[T](capacity)
}
init capacity<T>(capacity: Num) = capacityDelta(capacity, 0)
init make<T>() = capacityDelta(10,04)
var elt = Array[T].new(capacity)
}}}
So a few suggested changes / issues:
* if we're going to call constructors / initialisers with anything
like a normal send
then they can go to some object, basically the name of the type.
So the constructors
don't need to encode the name of the type
* But then how do constructor call other constructors? To which
object are constructor
calls (and self calls) sent?
* how do the calls to "classes"/"factories" work with **type
parameters**?
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