Re: Re: BeanShell Dialects: proposal for future syntax extension mechanism... (Patrick Niemeyer)

On Feb 2, 2005, at 10:59 AM, Victor Volle wrote:

> The syntactic sugar "{"  and "|" is not important, but being able to
> implement functions that are not top level functions but methods of an
> object?
>

I think in general we need a way for scripts to attach new scripted 
methods to Java objects and interfaces as well as scripted objects.  I 
think that capability could work with the other proposal.

It would not be hard to add a mechanism that allows you, for example, 
to add methods to the String class...  at least as far as the scripted 
code goes.  I'm not sure if it would require any new syntax or it it 
would just be a registry/interceptor sort of thing.  We might look at 
some of the AOP syntax for ideas.


Pat



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