Suggestion: Object instantiation

[Petr Schreiber]

Hi Charles,

I would like to be able to define explicitly constructor(optionally with params) and destructor(always without params, executed by GC) in classes, and be able to invoke it like:

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class GameObject

  constructor (Single x, Single y, Single z)

  end constructor

  destructor()

  end destructor

end class

...

function InitLevel()
  
  GameObject go = new GameObject(1,2,3)

  ' here go goes out of scope, so Oxygen would call its destructor first, and then deallocated it from memory
end function

I know you demonstrated the use of new and del macros, but this built in support would be better for us, poor mortals.


Thanks,
Petr

[Charles Pegge]

Hi Petr,

Yes I will canonise new and del (and constructor and destructor) so they become part of the core language. The "hard-cores" will still be able to create objects to their own specification but these are a safe way to create dynamic objects.

Example:

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'==========
class shape
'==========
  '
  double x,y,z
  '
  method constructor(double*a,double*b,double*c)
  '=============================================
    x=a : y=b : z=c
    string tab=chr 9
    print "construct" tab x tab y tab z
  end method

  method destructor()
  '==================
    print "destroy"
  end method

end class



new shape cuboid 1,2,3

'...

del cuboid
Here are the entries in keyw.bas where most O2 keywords are defined:

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data "new"            ,-19,"%1 * %2 : & %2=news sizeof %1 : %2.constructor"
'=====================

'action:   create a dynamic object and call its constructor method.
'use:      to create and initialise persistent objects
'example:  new shape cuboid 1,1,1
'related:  del
'group:    system macro


data "del"            ,-19,"%1.destructor : frees & %1 : & %1=0"
'=====================

'action:   Call a dynamic object's destructor method and disallocate its memorey block.
'use:      to delete persistent objects
'example:  del cuboid
'related:  new
'group:    system macro

I'll put this into Alpha024 which I will release before Christmas.

Many thanks!

Charles

[Petr Schreiber]

Thank you Charles!

That is very smart way of design - I wanted to write my own macro first for tests, but didn't know how to make the parameter passing done (there can be none or many). Now I see it in your trick


Petr