[plt-dev] struct-copy for objects

Good point. I guess I'll deal for now.

Two ideas:

A syntax form that works with an interface (updateable<%>) that makes
the class deal with this stuff. (A related note syntax transformers in
the class system's interfaces might work analogous to the unit
system's)

A syntax form that is only legal inside the the class, so it can know
what all the fields are. (Although this would probably break for a
subclass's private fields.)

Jay

On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 2:21 PM, Matthias Felleisen
<matthias at ccs.neu.edu> wrote:
>
> Ah, I asked this question recently only to be reminded of my age by my grad
> students. How'd you copy private vars and methods?
>
>
> On Mar 16, 2009, at 4:17 PM, Jay McCarthy wrote:
>
>> Is there any way of making something like struct-copy for objects?
>>
>> It seems like object-info and class-info have the machinery, but I'm
>> wondering if there's some fundamental reason it wouldn't work.
>>
>> I'd like to use the object system functionally without writing lots of
>> boiler plate.
>>
>> Jay
>>
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