[BAILOPAN]

Originally Posted by MomemtumMori Will there be some form of inheritance and polymorphism at some point?

The methodmap/class syntax already supports implementation inheritance, so some kind of polymorphism comes out of that. I think it'll get more powerful over time though.

[Dr. Greg House]

There really needs to be something better than the struct-hack.

[Powerlord]

Originally Posted by Dr. Greg House There really needs to be something better than the struct-hack.

Assuming you mean C structs, the methodmap syntax are more than just structs as C structs don't have methods.

[KissLick]

Originally Posted by Powerlord Assuming you mean C structs, the methodmap syntax are more than just structs as C structs don't have methods.

I guess he meant that enum ~ struct hack :-D

[Dr. Greg House]

Originally Posted by Powerlord Assuming you mean C structs, the methodmap syntax are more than just structs as C structs don't have methods.

They are neither.
They're just methods bound to a type.

[Powerlord]

Originally Posted by Dr. Greg House They are neither. They're just methods bound to a type.

They act similarly to classes, but aren't. That's rather the point of having this transitional API. It's meant to be mainly compatible with existing SM code while introducing a new syntax.

You can choose to not do that and create an actual Class. The only apparent downside is that it can't be used with functions that have an any declaration as they aren't actually tags. Which makes them somewhat useless as they don't work with things like Timers.

[Dr. Greg House]

wtf

Do you actually know the purpose of the

Originally Posted by Dr. Greg House [...]struct-hack.

...which my comment is actually about?

Because none of what you proposed fills that void.

[Powerlord]

Originally Posted by Dr. Greg House wtf Do you actually know the purpose of the ...which my comment is actually about? Because none of what you proposed fills that void.

Since the topic of conversation is the new API/syntax, I assumed your were talking about the new API. Which I guess isn't the case.

[Dr. Greg House]

Originally Posted by Dr. Greg House There really needs to be something better than the struct-hack.

Listening comprehension at its finest.
Not that there was future talk and requests anyway.

[Powerlord]

Originally Posted by Dr. Greg House Listening comprehension at its finest. Not that there was future talk and requests anyway.

Well, there's also the fact that it's blindingly obvious how to do it given the syntax examples already given.

PHP Code:

methodmap MyStruct
{
    property int MyIntProp {
        public native get;
        public native set(int newIntVal);
    }

    property char[32] MyStringProp {
        public native get;
        public native set(char[] newStringVal);
    }
}

// in some other method
    MyStruct aStruct = MyStruct();
    aStruct.MyIntProp = 14;
    aStruct.MyStringProp = "bacon";