Clastic port?
stéphane ducasse
ducasse at iam.unibe.ch
Fri Feb 4 15:04:22 UTC 2005
cool
I'm eager to see that.
Stef
On 1 févr. 05, at 15:08, David Faught wrote:
> Thanks to Prof. Ducasse (some time ago), I am looking at the
> possibility of porting some or all of Clastic,
> http://users.info.unicaen.fr/~karczma/Work/Clastic_distr/clastic.html ,
> to Croquet. I have not really looked at Functional Programming
> languages like Clean before. It seems fairly straightforward in
> itself, but I am wondering what is the best way to represent this kind
> of code in Smalltalk/Squeak/Croquet.
>
> On a basic conceptual level, it seems that there is no real object to
> receive the messages, made up of the function arguments. Should I just
> create one class (the "Clean" object?) with tons of instance-side
> methods (one per function definition)? I know that some Functional
> Programming has been done in Squeak before. What was the approach
> used?
>
> I'm also thinking that I would like to use Andreas' extensions to
> method invocation to simplify the syntax of having lots of arguments.
> I will have to try that out and see how it works. I know that this is
> in Croquet, but I'm not sure that it made it into Squeak, which is
> really the only reason that I'm planning on doing this project in
> Croquet.
>
>
>
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