That is not going to work. SetMethod is a private method, which means it
can only be used from within the context of a method of the object itself.
It is intended for writing subclasses that wish to provide some level of
dynamicism, not for anybody to just attach methods to an object.
Rick
On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 10:27 AM, Mukenx <muk...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I am trying to use the .Object setMethod() on a stem in order to dump the
> content of the stem in a certain format. Any help is appreciated.
> This is what I tried:
>
> ------------------
> recs.1 = 'aaa'
> recs.2 = 'bbb'
> recs.~setMethod('dump', .methods~dumpCollection)
> say recs.~dump
> exit
>
> /**
> * floating method
> */
> ::method dumpCollection
> mb=.MutableBuffer~new;
> loop i over self~allindexes~sort;
> if i = 'DUMP' then
> iterate;
> mb~append(self~class~id'['i']:'self[i]||.Endofline);
> end;
>
> return mb~string
> -------------------------
>
> and this is what I get:
> 5 *-* recs.~setMethod('dump', .methods~dumpCollection)
> Error 97 running C:\Keita\REXX\sandbox\testSetMethod.rex line 5: Object
> method
> not found
> Error 97.1: Object "RECS." does not understand message "SETMETHOD"
>
> However, replacing the stem by a .Directory does work fine.
>
> Cheers,
> Madou
>
>
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