Re: what about sets?

See the source code - in particular groovy.lang.MetaClass which is 
where most of the MOP lives

On 7 Mar 2005, at 14:34, Furash Gary wrote:
> John, can you give me more information on what groovy does right NOW?
> What is a "MOP"?
>
>
> Gary Furash, MBA, PMP
> Applications Manager, Maricopa County Attorney's Office
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Rose [mailto:rose00@...]
> Sent: Friday, March 04, 2005 5:22 PM
> To: user@...
> Subject: Re: [groovy-user] what about sets?
>
> On Mar 4, 2005, at 15:20, Furash Gary wrote:
>> The last one with the long name is probably not appropriate (since
>> it's not very java-ish and is more like a struct).  It's something you
>
>> can do in VB, ABAP, or JudoScript.  Essentially, you do this:
>>
>> x = new Thingy("Field1", "Field2");
> Thingy is some sort of generic row-set, I guess?
>
> Such things can be built in Groovy, since a Groovy object's field 
> schema
> can be data-driven, not just class-driven as in Java.
> (There''s a MOP that gives the right hooks.)
>
>> Then you can do cool stuff like:
>>
>> For (row in x) {
>> 	row.Field1 = "potato";
>> 	row.Field2 = "a round starchy thing"; }
>>
>> Or
>> 	sumValue = x.sum("Field5")
> Often you don't need to string-quote the field name in Groovy.
> This example might be better with the distributive *. operator:
> 	sumValue = x*.Field5.sum()
>
> I'm cheating, there really isn't Collection.sum, yet, but it could be
> spelled like this:
> 	myList.inject(0){x,y|x+y}
>
> Maybe Groovy deserves more methods like sum.
> I hope we have time at some point to go and systematically 'steal' from
> the Common Lisp sequence functions and/or Smalltalk's collections API.
> Those designs are quite powerful and mature.  ("Best of breed".  )
>
>> Or
>> 	for (row in x.restrict("Field5", "v")) {
>> 		println(row is now only rows with a "v" in field 5);
>> 	}
> Again, using the dot operator directly:
> 	for (row in x.collect{it.Field5 == "v"}) ...
>
> Cheers.
>
> -- John
>
>

James

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