[E-Lang] Hydro & E operator expansions

[Mark S. Miller]

At 04:40 PM Tuesday 3/20/01, Dean Tribble wrote:

>>Does anyone object to this Python-like style of naming operator expansions?
>
>The only concern I have with the Python-style renaming is that the message 
>names are not meaningful to any existing class or library.  Thus, they 
>don't, play well with external libraries.  Is there an easy way to deal with 
>that?

Yes.  The E-to-Java binding mechanism easily "adds" methods to Java classes 
as seen through E colored glasses.  The mechanism is the *Sugar classes in 
the "meta" package tree, seen in the last section of 
http://www.erights.org/javadoc/overview-summary.html .  The E language 
programmer sees all Java objects only through these glasses.  The ELIb/Java 
programmer sees through these glasses whenever they do an "E.call(..)" or 
"E.send(..)", but not, obviously, when they do a Java "."

At least one issue in this problem space is easy. ;)


        Cheers,
        --MarkM