12 Nov
2013
12 Nov
'13
10:30 a.m.
On 11/11/2013 01:41 PM, Yuriy Tymchuk wrote:
Hi.
So if I’m not mistaken _ensure_ is meant to create referred data if it’s missing. But
when you look at:
ensureClass: var
var isBehavior
ifTrue: [ ^classDict at: var ].
var isSymbol
ifTrue: [
^classDict at: (self class environment at: var)
ifAbsent: [ metaDict at: var asString ]].
var isString
ifTrue: [ ^metaDict at: var ].
[ false ] assert.
it’s not ensuring anything. Isn’t there supposed to be something like:
metaDict at: var asString
ifAbsent: [ self processClass: var asClass ]
This really frustrates me about FAME. You cannot tell it "someObj asMSE”. You have
to write a tons of pragmas, then do some shenanigans with metamodels and only then you can
get serialisation working. Looks like stone age. Sorry for jumping on all the things like
that, it’s just that Moose - related things remind me of Java…
I am also having
issues with the shenanigans of Fame.
Half of the time I forget some pragma somewhere, and each time I have to
create a n-to-n relationship, I have to think twice, and then think
twice again.
I would really love to have a real generator: a small tool that I could
use to create Fame-classes and/or relationships and that would do all
the work
But for one I don't have much time, and even worst, last time I tried
(on a sunny sunday afternoon), I just had to admit it was above my
limited intelligence to work at three different levels of abstraction at
the same time.
I have been trying to enrol some bright mind on the project, but with no
success for the time being.
:-(
nicolas
PS: OK, this email is not useful to the community, but I really needed
to release all this frustration
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Nicolas Anquetil -- RMod research team (Inria)