[gambit-list] How to express javascript prototypes

Marc Feeley feeley at iro.umontreal.ca
Sat Jan 2 20:08:54 EST 2016


Yes!

Marc

> On Dec 22, 2015, at 11:21 AM, Adam <adam.mlmb at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Marc, any display-continuation-backtrace on roadmap?
> 
> 
> 2015-12-21 22:29 GMT+08:00 ben yakawp <ben.lists at yakawp.com>:
> and another thing I'd like to point out with this example: I find really
> difficult to debug the produced code. This is probably because GambitJS
> doesn't simply transpile the source code but uses the target language as
> a host for its virtual machine which has its own semantics.
> 
> I tried to use Marc Feeleys code to mimic OO style in scheme for
> prototypes:
> 
> ; OO
> (define (new constructor . args)
>   (let ((obj (create-object constructor args)))
>     (lambda (method . args)
>       (call-method obj method args))))
> 
> ; Prototypes
> (define (proto constructor . args)
>     (lambda (method . args)
>       (call-method constructor method args)))
> 
> (define console (proto 'console))
> (console log:)
> 
> Error:
> /out.js:935
>     g_r1 = g_host2scm(g_r1[g_r2.toString()].call(g_r1));
>     TypeError: Cannot call method 'call' of undefined
> 
> Question:
> - I would like to find out the value of "console". But what makes more
> sense: Debugging the value "console" in the c platform of the js
> platform?
> - How can you debug the javascript code? Alone the line
>           "g_r1 = g_host2scm(g_r1[g_r2.toString()].call(g_r1)); "
> is somehow mindblowing to me. You seem to reach out to scheme again from
> the generated code. I cannot follow this...
> 
> 
> On Mon, Dec 21, 2015, at 01:39 PM, ben yakawp wrote:
> > hi
> > I have a the following problem: Initially I was looking for a simple way
> > to write code on several platforms with scheme as the "reference
> > platform". This is more difficult then I thought because most of the
> > target languages have libraries that are build with an OO model. That
> > leaks into the platform neutral source code, so that you write scheme
> > but with OO in mind. Now I see a next problem, that of Javascript making
> > extensive use of "prototyping", again a specific model that has to be
> > ported to other languages.
> >
> > So my question is, how would you express prototyping in a platform
> > neutral way, so that you can (hypothecally) use the source code also for
> > target languages that don't support prototyping.
> >
> > Hopefully I don't make this much more complicated than it is.
> > Ben
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