[Moose-dev] Re: FAME not ensuring

Hi Yuriy,

This kind of messages are not particularly useful for anything.

Let's try to transform it into something positive. Are you unhappy with the behavior or with the name? Do you have an actual proposal for improvement?

Doru

On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 1:41 PM, Yuriy Tymchuk yuriy.tymchuk@me.com 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…

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