I've now generalized this to be a function or a slot in the struct. I hope to get it merged relatively soon.
Sam On Sat, Jul 12, 2014 at 3:00 PM, J. Ian Johnson <i...@ccs.neu.edu> wrote: > Why is it a name per type? That seems wrong, since a function with docstring > struct should have the object-name of the function, or something refined. The > struct itself could be used for potentially every function a user writes, > rendering object-name overly vague. > -Ian > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Sam Tobin-Hochstadt" <sa...@cs.indiana.edu> > To: "Matthew Flatt" <mfl...@cs.utah.edu> > Cc: "Racket Users" <users@racket-lang.org> > Sent: Saturday, July 12, 2014 2:44:09 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern > Subject: Re: [racket] something like a prop:object-name? > > This doesn't count as "soon", but I finally cleaned up my patch for > this: https://github.com/plt/racket/pull/729 > > It's not as general as what Alexander envisioned, so it should > probably be generalized. > > Sam > > On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 5:13 PM, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt > <sa...@cs.indiana.edu> wrote: >> I've written 75% of a patch for this, so hopefully we'll have it soon. >> >> Sam >> >> On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 4:50 PM, Matthew Flatt <mfl...@cs.utah.edu> wrote: >>> I think `prop:object-name` would be a good addition, but it doesn't >>> exist right now. >>> >>> At Wed, 30 Apr 2014 16:35:06 -0400, "Alexander D. Knauth" wrote: >>>> What do you mean? I tried it and it didn’t affect the object-name. >>>> >>>> And what I’m looking for is something that could be different for different >>>> instances of the same structure type, for example: >>>> (struct thing (name) #:property prop:object-name (struct-field-index name)) >>>> >>>> (struct proc-with-string (proc str) >>>> #:property prop:procedure (struct-field-index proc) >>>> #:property prop:object-name (lambda (this) >>>> (object-name (proc-with-string-proc this))) >>>> #:property prop:custom-write (lambda (this out mode) >>>> (display (proc-with-string-str this) >>>> out))) >>>> >>>> >>>> On Apr 30, 2014, at 9:26 AM, Stephen Chang <stch...@ccs.neu.edu> wrote: >>>> >>>> > Does the #:extra-constructor-name keyword argument to struct do what >>>> > you're >>>> looking for? >>>> > >>>> > On Apr 29, 2014 9:31 PM, "Alexander D. Knauth" <alexan...@knauth.org> >>>> > wrote: >>>> > I’m just curious is there something like a prop:object-name that the >>>> object-name function would use when returning the object name of a struct >>>> with >>>> that property? >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > ____________________ >>>> > Racket Users list: >>>> > http://lists.racket-lang.org/users >>>> >>>> ____________________ >>>> Racket Users list: >>>> http://lists.racket-lang.org/users >>> >>> ____________________ >>> Racket Users list: >>> http://lists.racket-lang.org/users > > ____________________ > Racket Users list: > http://lists.racket-lang.org/users ____________________ Racket Users list: http://lists.racket-lang.org/users
