Re: [Sooc-devel] The Game Plan

[Dan R. <sta...@gm...>]

s-meta is missing from svn

On 8/16/07, Mike Richman <mik...@gm...> wrote:
>
> Here is the game plan I recently outlined:
>
> 1)  Create class messages ("static" messages).  This is easy.
>
> 2)  Reorganize the object creation process.  Get some memory with the
> 'alloc' class message, then init the object with the init method
> (which still automatically calls parent constructors and such).  This
> is what we do right now: an alloc *method*, not message, gets some
> memory with calloc(), calls the init method, and returns a properly
> formed object.  So the old way could be referred to as
> "ass-backwards"... if you will.  I'll fix it.
>
> 3)  Then I'll get rid of the "memory" module or whatever by bringing
> the memory management in as SObject methods.  There's no real need to
> make retain/release/auto_release messages.  You just need the 'alloc'
> class message and a corresponding 'free' message.
>
> 4)  Next I'll carefully create a true base class that contains only
> the bare minimum for a top-level Sooc class.  I'll get rid of all the
> hackish code that is SObject and rewrite the boilerplate in terms of
> Sooc macros so it will be a genuine abstract class.
>
> 5)  When the base system finally makes sense, I'll start rewriting all
> the method prototypes to use typed parameter pointers, while
> continuing to use generic self- and return-value-pointers.
>
> Tonight I finished 1-4.  It went rather well.  The base class is
> SMeta.  SIface is more elegant because it uses SMetaClass as a base
> (just as SObject and SObjectClass build on SMeta and SMetaClass).
> Externally managed objects are now possible with s_ext_bless() before
> use and s_ext_clean() after.  [Note: I was referring to these as
> unmanaged earlier, with s_unmanaged_bless() and s_unmanaged_clean(),
> but those names were confusing and unnecessarily long.]
>
> So it's time for an updated Game Plan.
>
> -Mike
>
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