On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 7:20 AM, Stephen Bloch <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > Another thing I'd be interested in suggestions with is how to deal with > updating a struct in a clean way. Right now, you need to explicitly wrote > set-world-X functions for each field in your struct, which is pretty ugly. > Also, the fact that structs don't have field names makes them more error > prone. None of this is well suited towards building complex worlds with > lots of components. > > I'm not sure what you mean by "structs don't have field names", but the > issue of updating individual fields of a struct is under discussion; in a > version Fairly Soon the student languages will probably have functions that > produce a copy of a given struct with a single field replaced. > > Sorry, I was unclear. What I meant to say is that struct constructors don't use field names. My sense is that this makes dealing with large complex structs error prone. y
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