[Grace-core] Names, names, names

[Kim Bruce]

Thanks.  I don't need it to write code, just to explain in the Programming
with Grace text where the default definitions of ==, !=, asString, etc. all
come from.

On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 1:51 PM Andrew P Black <andrew.p.black at gmail.com>
wrote:

>
> On 17 Jun 2015, at 11:23 , Kim Bruce <kbbruce47 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > The top type in Grace is Object.  What is the name of the top class in
> Grace, the one that other classes implicitly inherit from.  I only need to
> know to insert an explanation in my text.  Object and Top aren't
> recognized, and putting in Object as a superclass (not surprisingly)
> generates errors when you try to use the inherited methods.
> >
> > I couldn't find any of this in the spec, and it likely should be there.
>
> We decided (in the conference room at Claremont, IIRC) that it's called
> graceObject.  It is mentioned in the spec, in section 10, but isn't
> actually defined there.
>
> It's also not implemented in either of the minigrace code generators.
>
> Programmers never need to refer to graceObject.  If they want one, they
> can write it
>
>         object { }
>
> So we did discuss not giving it a name at all.
>
> If we agree that we want it to have a name, I'll just add
>
>         factory method graceObject { }
>
> to the standard prelude.
>
>
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