[Xotcl] XOTcl parameter command

[Uwe Zdun]

Hi Attilio!

Attilio Dona` wrote:

>  
> Hy,
>
> Thanks to XOTcl I'm rethinking the OO paradigm and doing metaprogramming
> easier.
>

thanks!!

> 1. Parameter introspection
>
> I use the Metaclass concept to model metainfos and use the parameter
> command to add meta-attributes runtime.
> As already You pointed out the parameter introspection (className info
> parameter) mechanism is not correct, so it is needed some parsing, with
> euristic regexp, to extract the parameters info.
>
> Also the command:
>
> className info parameter parameterName
>
> doesn't work as expected, because it ignores parameterName
>
> Have you planned to release in the near future the fix to this problem?
>
I agree, we should fix this for the next release ...

>
> 2 Parameter strange behavoir
>
> When using Parameter command I have noticed same strange behavoirs, for
> examples:
>
> case 1:
> Class X -parameter {{-x 100}}
> ::X
>
> case 2:
> Class X -parameter [list {-x 100}]
> wrong # args: ....
>
> case 1 and 2 are perfectly equivalent, so I think there is same strange
> parsing inside a C function. Also note that this is true only for 
> "negative"
> attribute, ie: Class X -parameter [list {x 100}] work as expected.
>
this is because -...  has a meaning for  the paramters, like widget 
options,
and is substituted, if you don't put two brackets around it {{..}} ... 
see language
reference for more explanation.

As this is a normal substitution in Tcl, you can get around this problem 
by backslashing
the "-":

Class X -parameter [list {\-x 100}]

this works.

Uwe

> Attilio
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