From: Per Abrahamsen <abraham@dina.kvl.dk>
Subject: Re: Creating recursive customization types / widgets
Date: Mon, 01 Dec 2003 18:08:37 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <rjoeusmpnu.fsf@sheridan.dina.kvl.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: rj1xrou5vc.fsf@sheridan.dina.kvl.dk
Per Abrahamsen <abraham@dina.kvl.dk> writes:
> Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA> writes:
>
>> Neat. I have no idea why it's called `child' and the resulting
>> use of `child' in (define-widget 'foo 'child ...) does not look
>> particularly intuitive, but I can't think of anything better either.
>
> Because it has a single child widget, and the new widget basically
> behave like the child, except for allowing recursion.
Actually, now I remember. I though of it as a potential base class
for all widgets with a single child. But it is not entirely
appropriate for that.
> I called it 'recursive' and 'delayed' under development.
>
> It is a common pattern in OOP. Having an object that wraps another
> object, delegates message to the other object, and thus acts like a
> proxy. So 'wrapper', delegator' or 'proxy' could be used as well.
My current favorite name would be 'proxy', but I do not feel strongly
about it. What do you think?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-12-01 17:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-11-29 16:38 Creating recursive customization types / widgets Per Abrahamsen
2003-11-29 18:34 ` Per Abrahamsen
2003-11-30 20:05 ` Stefan Monnier
2003-12-01 11:36 ` Per Abrahamsen
2003-12-01 16:35 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2003-12-02 12:37 ` tapsellferrier.co.uk Host name lookup failure Robert J. Chassell
2003-12-01 17:08 ` Per Abrahamsen [this message]
2003-12-02 0:31 ` Creating recursive customization types / widgets Juri Linkov
2003-12-02 10:19 ` Per Abrahamsen
2003-12-02 12:46 ` David Kastrup
2003-12-02 13:34 ` Per Abrahamsen
2003-12-02 10:40 ` Per Abrahamsen
2003-12-01 13:36 ` Per Abrahamsen
2003-12-01 16:10 ` Ted Zlatanov
2003-12-01 19:24 ` Per Abrahamsen
2003-12-01 1:45 ` Richard Stallman
2003-12-01 13:27 ` Per Abrahamsen
2003-12-02 4:17 ` Richard Stallman
2003-12-02 10:31 ` Per Abrahamsen
2003-12-03 4:46 ` Richard Stallman
2003-12-03 12:30 ` Per Abrahamsen
2003-12-03 15:26 ` Per Abrahamsen
2003-12-03 19:05 ` Kevin Rodgers
2003-12-02 11:24 ` David Kastrup
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