Re: Re: [Webmacro-devel] #const question

[Keats <ke...@su...>]

I'm actually not sure if #bean can create a variable at build time.  It's been a long time since I looked at the code, but I think I made it smart enough to do as much as possible during the build.  

It's certainly possible for a directive to do this (like #const does already), so you could probably make #newobject work this way.  I.e., make the #newobject directive do all its work in the build() method, then:

#newobject $x
#set $x.SomeProp = [ 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 ]

I'm pretty sure Brian has made the parser smart enough to do all this at build time, since there are no runtime dependencies.

Keats



-------Original Message-------
From: Marc Palmer <ma...@an...>
Sent: 07/24/03 10:11 AM
To: web...@li...
Subject: Re: [Webmacro-devel] #const question

> 
> On Thu, 24 Jul 2003 09:58:57 -0400 (GMT), Keats <ke...@su...> wrote:

> I think this could work if $MyHelper is also a #const.  Otherwise 
> $MyHelper doesn't exist at build time, so this will fail.

Ah yes I see that makes sense. Hmm. This is a good reason why directives 
should not create objects - as they can't be used as the right hand side
of 
an assignment. Maybe I will have to ditch #newobject after all and make it 

a helper - but instantiating it as a #const is going to be tricky isn't
it?

How do we create an #const compatible object that isn't a simple WM type?

I suppose #bean has the ability to create build-time scoped objects
doesn't 
it? ( :( don't make me use it!)


Marc
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