Arc Forum | Nice, and you even changed it so x!deposit returns a function again! This does o...

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1 point by bogomipz 5180 days ago | link | parent

Nice, and you even changed it so x!deposit returns a function again! This does of course add some overhead since a closure is constructed every time you call a method, but still.

One thing I'm not quite happy with is that one has to write o!money. Would it somehow be possible to hide the o? Would it be possible to use !money or .money, or does the parser not allow that? And how to pass the hash table from the afn to the methods without polluting their namespaces? It could be done using a gensym, but then it is not possible to add methods to the method table outside defclass.

Perhaps doing something like this:

  (= bank-account-mt
    (obj check-pass (fn (self pw)
                      (unless (is self!ivars!pw pw)
                        (err "Wrong password!")))
         deposit (fn (self x pw)
                   self!check-pass.pw
                   (++ self!ivars!money x))
         withdraw (fn (self x pw)
                    self!check-pass.pw
                    (if (< self!ivars!money x)
                        (err "Not enough money.")
                        (-- self!ivars!money x)))
         check (fn (self pw)
                 self!check-pass.pw
                 self!ivars!money)
         change-pw (fn (self new-pw pw)
                     self!check-pass.pw
                     (= self!ivars!pw new-pw))))

  (def bank-account (password)
    (let ivars (obj money 0 pw password)
      (afn (selector)
        (if (is selector 'ivars)
            ivars
            (fn args
              (apply (bank-account-mt selector)
                     (cons self args)))))))

Then make defclass turn .foo into self!ivars!foo. Another macro could exist for (re)defining methods after the fact:

  (defmethod bank-account steal-money (x)
    (-- .money x))

Or even redefine Arc's def so you could do:

  (def bank-account!steal-money (x)
    (-- .money x))

since (bank-account 'steal-money) is not an atom and 'def could thus recognize it as different from an ordinary function definition.