Oops! Sorry for being a bit behind!
On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 5:37 PM, Jimmy Schementi <
jimmy.scheme...@microsoft.com> wrote:
> Foo.of(Bar).new works today … since it's about instantiating generic
> types … this discussion was only about generic methods.
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> *From:* ironruby-core-boun...@rubyforge.org [mailto:
> ironruby-core-boun...@rubyforge.org] *On Behalf Of *Ryan Riley
> *Sent:* Friday, January 09, 2009 2:33 PM
> *To:* ironruby-core@rubyforge.org
> *Subject:* Re: [Ironruby-core] Generic method synxtax
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> How would this look for instantiating a generic object?
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>
> my_object = Foo.method(:new).of(Bar).call
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> That seems strange. Perhaps we need to possibilities: the above for generic
> methods and the following for generic classes:
>
> my_object = Foo.of(Bar).new
> # where Foo would be defined as Foo<T> in C#
>
> my_clone = my_object.clone
> # where clone would have a C# signature of T Clone<T>()
>
> or should that be:
>
> my_clone = my_object.method(:clone).of(Bar).call?
> # and allow my_object.clone to have an overloaded
> # C# signature of object Clone()?
>
> ~Ryan
>
> On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 3:45 PM, Tomas Matousek <
> tomas.matou...@microsoft.com> wrote:
>
> Mine has also an issue that just occurred to me. If you do:
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> class C
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> content.load of(Texture2D), "foo"
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> end
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>
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> "of" resolves to Module#of which would return a C<Texture2D> if C was a
> generic type or throws an exception.
>
> So that's not good either. We would need a different method name for
> generic method constructor than for generic type. Maybe "method_of"?
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>
> As for your idea:
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> content.of(T).load
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>
> is looks backwards. The content is not of T… the load is. I think this
> would be confusing.
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> Until we figure out some nice clean solution that works in 100% cases, I
> would implement the following as the first step for generic method support:
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> content.method(:load).of(Texture2D).call("mytexture")
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> (Note, you can do the same in Ruby for regular methods:
> "foo".method(:center).call(100))
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> anything else is just a convenience and anyone could define it via standard
> Ruby means.
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>
> Tomas
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