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

ben yakawp ben.lists at yakawp.com
Mon Dec 7 15:17:55 EST 2015


thanks, 
so the trick is to mimic the oo style in Gambit. 

 
  7 (define (new-Date o)
  8   (let ((obj (##inline-host-expression "new Date()")))
 10   (lambda (f)
 11     (f obj))))
 14 
 15 (define date (new-Date "Date"))
 16 
 17 (print (date .getTime))


What do you think of this notation?



On Mon, Dec 7, 2015, at 06:00 PM, Marc Feeley wrote:
> Here’s a simple example creating a JavaScript Date object and extracting
> the number of milliseconds since January 1, 1970:
> 
> (define (new-Date)
>   (##inline-host-expression "new Date()"))
> 
> (define (.getTime obj)
>   (##inline-host-expression "@1 at .getTime()" obj))
>   
> (define o (new-Date))
> 
> (println (.getTime o))
> 
> This is possible because host objects can be used as Scheme objects (they
> are opaque, but you can return them from functions, pass them as function
> parameters and store them in data-structures).
> 
> Does that clarify things?
> 
> BTW, the above code can be improved quite a bit to make it more general. 
> I’m just giving this example to show it is simple to interface to host
> objects.
> 
> Marc
> 
> 
> > On Dec 7, 2015, at 11:44 AM, ben yakawp <ben.lists at yakawp.com> wrote:
> > 
> > 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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