On 21 Oct 2006, at 11:33, Gustaf Neumann wrote:
Kristoffer Lawson schrieb:
I don't mean the state of the object at time of calling, in the sense of slots, but the values passed to the constructor on object creation. The args to 'init'. The reason for this is that it might not be enough to just create the object with the appropriate state, but it might need to go through the 'init' stage as well, so the proper initialisation chain is done (f.ex. might be calls to other things taking place there, registration with managers etc). After that, slots can be set.
i see, you mean the per-object parameterization; the arguments to the object/class creation are not stored explicitely in XOTcl. However, the simplest way to save these is to provide a per-class mixin for overloading the standard configure behavior.
Does this help?
No, I didn't mean per-object parametrisation, but the arguments passed to the constructor itself. F.ex.
Class Foo
Foo instproc init {name parent} { .... }
And then I could ask of any 'Foo' object about what 'name' and 'parent' were used to create it, without the object itself having to know about this logic.
Mixins are probably risky here as the 'init' method does not have to call [next]. I could do this with a filter, I guess, or perhaps by overloading [create]. I just wondered if I had overlooked something and this information might be available somehow and that if this information was stored internally, it could be exported to the script level, but I gather that it is not?