Funnily enough, that question has also been raised on the wave I started for the project; it's public, see here: https://wave.google.com/wave/?pli=1#restored:wave:googlewave.com!w%252Ba3G_NBOLC
I guess that this is slightly a scala thing, I went for a verb instead of a noun as this feels more natural to me when working in a functional style. My other choices were @with and @compose. @with had to be ruled out as this clashes with a reserved keyword and @compose lost as @proxy is shorter (being concise was important to me) Also in my mind was that the synthesized methods are the delegates, not the object being proxied. On Nov 23, 8:57 pm, Reinier Zwitserloot <reini...@gmail.com> wrote: > Interesting that you called it proxy. We have a similar plan for > lombok (used to be at the top of the list, but interesting co- > operation with Michael Ernst and the Checker Framework, as well as the > closures announcement, has pretty much made the lombok agenda null and > void. We're still sorting through things). > > We were planning on calling it @Delegate though, and not @Proxy. We > chose @Delegate mostly because the term fits (all methods of the type > of the @proxy/@Delegate object are copied over, and the > implementations are _delegated_ to the object marked @Delegate), > there's some precedence (C# uses this term as well), and proxy has > other connotations in java (mostly involving dynamically creating an > implementation of an interface, with all methods pointing to something > akin to a method_missing kind of thing). > > Intrigued as to why you went with @proxy. Is that a more common term > in the functional programming world, or something specific to scala? > > --Reinier Zwitserloot > > On Nov 23, 11:39 am, Kevin Wright <kevin.lee.wri...@o2.co.uk> wrote: > > > The autoproxy compiler-plugin for scala is now available to view on > > github:http://wiki.github.com/scala-incubator/autoproxy-plugin > > > My goal is to take some of the boilerplate pain out of object > > delegation, using a code-generation approach similar to project lombok > > on Java. > > > It's still a bit prototypey at the moment, and is currently based on > > the SVN trunk of Scala. > > To help with this, an ant script is available to build the plugin. > > > My aim is to track Scala release candidates and have the plugin > > "officially" released at the same time as Scala 2.8 > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to javapo...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to javaposse+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=.
