What is the significance of the dunder-bar naming? If it's numeric indices,
then "get" and "set" would work just the same... unless I'm missing
something?

Rick

On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 2:41 PM, Nathan Rajlich <[email protected]>wrote:

> Hey all, just wanted to throw out a new module of mine that I finished
> up this weekend: array-index[0]. This module makes it easy to define
> your own "array classes", that invoke custom accessor functions when
> the numerical indexes are gotten or set.
>
> I personally needed this module to implement "ref-array", which will
> be a module that lets you create arbitrary typed arrays backed by
> Buffers using the "ref" interface. Ultimately this will be sweet when
> using node-ffi.
>
> As a silly example, here's how you can invoke "Math.pow(2, index)" for
>  whatever index is accessed on the "array-index" instance:
>
>     var ArrayIndex = require('array-index')
>
>     // let's just create a singleton instance.
>     var a = new ArrayIndex()
>
>     // the "__get__" function is invoked for each "a[n]" access.
>     a.__get__ = Math.pow.bind(Math, 2)
>
>     // you must set the "length" on each instance manually
>     a.length = 10
>
>     console.log(a)
>     // [ 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, 256, 512, __get__: [Function] ]
>
> You can probably come up with some pretty sweet use-cases for this,
> and let me know if you do! Cheers!
>
> [0]: https://github.com/TooTallNate/array-index
>
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