Ok, even if overloading the dot operator is not yet implemented I would
be pleased if someone could provide an example how to use the setfield
function.

Uwe

On Friday, March 7, 2014 10:20:51 PM UTC+1, Ivar Nesje wrote:
>
> I do not think you can overload the . operator in Julia yet.
> Setfield is only for calling to set the value.
>
> See also https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/1974 
>
> kl. 22:16:09 UTC+1 fredag 7. mars 2014 skrev Uwe Fechner følgende:
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I am looking for an example how to use the setfield function.
>> (see: http://docs.julialang.org/en/release-0.2/stdlib/base/ )
>>
>> The following does not work (setfield is not called when the field time 
>> is set):
>>
>> using ProtoBuf
>> import ProtoBuf.meta
>>
>> type AutopilotLog
>>     time::Float64
>>     counter::Int32
>>     number::Int32
>>     AutopilotLog() = (x = new(); fillunset(x); x)
>> end #type AutopilotLog
>> meta(t::Type{AutopilotLog}) = meta(t, Symbol[:time,:counter], Int[], 
>> Dict{Symbol,Any}())
>> function setfield(value, time::Symbol, x)
>>         x.time = value
>>         println("abc")
>> end
>>
>> log = AutopilotLog()
>> log.time = 0.0
>>
>> Any hint what I am doing wrong?
>>
>> Regards:
>>
>> Uwe (using Julia 0.21)
>>
>

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