[ruby-talk:9764] A generic prototype

This in response to [ruby-talk:9761]

Thank you very much this is exactly what I wanted - except you
you got the math wrong - i.e the return type of + is wrong ;-)
(given my wrong input of course ..).

Thanks to your hint I cooked up a generics interface. As usual
I have eat my words - i.e. the thing is entirely based on mixin
 - at least it maintains a bit of the template flavor ... (the
type qualifier are necessary and there is no lose of speed to
access class constants like this if I remember correctly).

I wished that something like this would end up in the official class
interface to encourage people to use generics - when appropriate.
(there are unsurprisingly a lot of warnings, generic_bucket is
obviously not thread save and there are other issues but its a
start.)

Christoph




class Module
   protected :append_features
end

class Class
  def Class.generic (aModule,theConstants, aSuperclass = Object)
     klass   = Class.new aSuperclass
     aModule.append_features klass
 #   klass.extend aModule
     mk = klass.constants
     theConstants.each_index  { |c|  klass.class_eval "#{mk[c]} = theConstants[c]
" }
     klass
  end
  def Class.generic_bucket (aModule,theConstants, classes, aSuperclass = Object)
     if  classes.key? theConstants
        classes[ theConstants ]
     else
        klass   = Class.new aSuperclass
        aModule.append_features klass
#       klass.extend aModule
        mk = klass.constants
        theConstants.each_index  { |c|  klass.class_eval "#{mk[c]} = theConstants[c]
" }
        classes[theConstants] =  klass
        klass
      end
   end
end


module  Test
  W = 6
  X = 56
def ops
  p [type::W, type::X]
end
end

$class = {}
test1 = Class.generic_bucket(Test,[5,'a'], $class)
test2 = Class.generic_bucket(Test,[5,'a'], $class)
test3 = Class.generic_bucket(Test,['r','l'], $class)
p test1.id == test2.id  # true
test3.new.ops   #  ["l", "r"]





# Ruby correct ?


class Ring
   def  Ring.mod_ZZ (n)
      Class.generic_bucket(M_mod_ZZ,[n],@@__mod_ZZ)
   end

private
module  M_mod_ZZ
  N = 1 # default
  def initialize  (n)
     @rep  = n  % type::N
  end
  def + (r)
     type::new (@rep + r.rep)
  end
  def inspect
      @rep
  end
  protected
  attr_reader  :rep
end
@@__mod_ZZ ={}
end


A  = Ring.mod_ZZ 13
B  = Ring.mod_ZZ 23
C = Ring.mod_ZZ 13
a1 =  A.new 11
a2 =  B.new 11
b1 =  C.new 10
p A.id == C.id # true
b2 =  B.new 11
p a1 + b1  # 8
p a2 + b2  # 22
p a1 + a2 + a2 #  7


> -----Original Message-----
> From: ts [mailto:[e-mail]]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 23, 2001 02:44 AM
> To: ruby-talk ML
> Cc: [e-mail]
> Subject: [ruby-talk:9761] Re: 101 Misconceptions About Dynamic Languages
>
>
> >>>>> "C" == Christoph Rippel <[e-mail]> writes:
>
> C> class A
> C>   N = 13  # this is the crucial part
>
>  The problem here is that N is resolved at compile time
>
> C>   def initialize n
> C>       @rep = n % N
> C>   end
> C>   def + (r)
> C>        (@rep + rep.r) % N
>                   ^^^^^
>                   r.rep
>
>   no ?
>
> C>   end
> C>   attr_reader :rep
> C> ...
> C> end
>
>
> C> The import thing is that the type information is attached to the object ...
>
> C> a1 =  A.new 11
> C> a2 =  B.new 11
> C> b1 =  C.new 10  # definitely want A.id == C.id
> C> b2 =  B.new 11  # is nor hard but is not natively supported
>
> C> than the internal representation of
>
> C> a1 + b1 and a2 + b2
>
> C> won't be equal.
>
>  Probably this not what you want (I know nothing about math :-))
>
> pigeon% cat b.rb
> #!/usr/bin/ruby
> class  Ring
>    @@class = {}
>    def Ring.mod_ZZ(n)
>       return @@class[n] if @@class.key? n
>       a = Class.new(self)
>       a.module_eval "N = #{n}"
>       @@class[n] = a
>       a
>    end
>   def initialize( n)
>      @rep = n % self.class::N
>   end
>   def + (r)
>        (@rep + r.rep) % self.class::N
>   end
>   attr_reader :rep
> end
>
>
> A  = Ring.mod_ZZ 13
> B  = Ring.mod_ZZ 23
> C = Ring.mod_ZZ 13
> a1 =  A.new 11
> a2 =  B.new 11
> b1 =  C.new 10
> p A.id == C.id
> b2 =  B.new 11
> p a1 + b1
> p a2 + b2
> pigeon%
>
> pigeon% b.rb
> true
> 8
> 22
> pigeon%
>
>
> Guy Decoux
>