From: Hugh Sasse <hgs@...>
Date: 2005-11-25T04:52:36+09:00
Subject: Re: Legal symbol names and generics

On Fri, 25 Nov 2005, John Lam wrote:

> 
> So rewriting my original example (which I now realize has the constructor
> parameter in the wrong place) [1]
> 
> channel = ChannelFactory[IOutputChannel].new('
> http://www.flickr.com/services/soap/').CreateChannel<http://www.flickr.com/services/soap/%27%29.CreateChannel>
> 
> This does, however clash with static indexers in the CLR since I would like
> to preserve the [] indexer semantics in the bridge ... thoughts?
> 
> Thanks!
> -John
> 

I've come in on the middle of this and don't know how to interpret
CLR (comp.lang.ruby? C++ Language RTTI? Something to do with .NET (I
forget what)?).  So, I find myself wondering why not:

flickstem = "http:://www.flikr.com/services/soap/"
channel = ChannelSweatshop.new("IOChannel" => flickrstem,
                               "CreateChannel" =>
                               "#{flickrstem}%27%29.CreateChannel",
                               "FinancialDrain" =>
                               "ShoppingChannel",
                               "BritTerrestrialChannels" => ["BBC1",
                               "BBC2", "ITV1", "Channel4", "five"])

where ChannelSweatshop is a big, smokey factory with lots of worker
methods to produce your channels for you, with rather of lot of
flexibility.  And all those args will end up in a single hash.

Or pass a block to the constructor, instance_eval it,  and call the
channels into being in tbe block.

But I've probably missed the crucial detail.

        Hugh