[gambit-list] How to handle and access and interact with object members host code

Adam adam.mlmb at gmail.com
Mon Dec 7 11:49:53 EST 2015


Something like

(define abcproperty-accessor (native-lambda (native-object) int "___result
= ___arg1.abcproperty;"))


(define o (new Object))

(define abcproperty (abcproperty-accessor o))

?


2015-12-08 0:44 GMT+08:00 ben yakawp <ben.lists at yakawp.com>:

> Just to be a little more precise. Expressing OO style in Scheme was not
> my primary concern here. The problem I see is that the all of the host
> languages (except the original C backend) access their library functions
> through an OO interface. It's not like the library approach in scheme
> were you can directly use a function after you imported it.
>
> That means if you want to use a function from a host language you first
> have to create an object. But now what is this object in Scheme and what
> can it do? In the best case, it would check the member calls at compile
> time. In the worst case it add runtime cost in the backend.
>
> But thats just stuff I was thinking about.
>
> What I wanted to know in the first place is how I should accessing
> backing library functions / ffing that are "hidden" behind OO apis.
> How is this done?
>
>
> On Mon, Dec 7, 2015, at 05:13 PM, Marc Feeley wrote:
> > At the Scheme level, you can express the OO style in various ways.  Here
> > are 2 that come to mind:
> >
> > 1) Your “new” operator could return a closure which receives as a first
> > parameter the name of the method to be called.  So you could:
> >
> > (define o (new Lib))
> > (o print: "hello")
> >
> > or
> >
> > (define .print '.print)
> > (o .print "hello")
> >
> > 2) You could make .print a function that receives as a first parameter
> > the object on which the method applies.  For example:
> >
> > (define .print (lambda (self text) …))
> > (define o (new Lib))
> > (.print o "hello")
> >
> > You can of course use macros to automate these styles.
> >
> > Marc
> >
> > > On Dec 7, 2015, at 8:31 AM, ben yakawp <ben.lists at yakawp.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > hi
> > > Sorry if this too obvious, but I don't understand how gambit handles
> > > objects from the hosts backend.
> > >
> > >
> > > For example: if one would like to construct a 'Node' library for the JS
> > > backend, how would you do that? The whole node api seems to be object
> > > oriented.  But also the Python standard libaries (batteries) are layed
> > > out class based. You had to do something like
> > >
> > > (define o (new Lib))
> > > (o.print "hello")
> > >
> > > This looks wrong. What am I missing?
> > >
> > > Regards
> > > ben
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