[Xotcl] Collections

[Uwe Zdun]

This corresponds to the idea of making filters etc themselves objects.
I like this idea from a conceptual point of view. Implementation-wise
it could be a larger undertaking ... the problem is that these "collections"
manage different things at the C-code level (Tcl_Obj*s, Cmds, etc) in lists
and hashtables and that some parts are not under control of XOTcl's C code 
(children are managed by Tcl in Namespaces). So really a 2.0 issue :)

Uwe


On Monday 12 May 2003 16:47, MichaelL at frogware.com wrote:
> This is an item for the suggestion box.
>
> XOTcl uses a number of collections: filters, mixins, children, etc. It may
> perhaps make sense to introduce a real collection class or abstraction,
> and implement those concepts directly *as* collections. Reading through a
> lot of XOTcl code--eg, xoRBAC--you can see that the same themes appear
> over and over again, such as checking to see if an object is already mixed
> in. Right now "append"--and only "append"--is built into the list of
> supplied Object methods (eg, "filterappend"). Rather than flooding Object
> with more and more collection management procs it might be better to
> expose the filter collection as an object that supports operations
> directly (like "append" and "contains" and "remove").
>
> This is more like a 2.0 change--and presupposes that there will be a 2.0.
>
> :-)

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