From: Neil Jerram <neil@ossau.homelinux.net>
To: Taylan Ulrich Bayirli/Kammer <taylanbayirli@gmail.com>
Cc: Carlos Pita <carlosjosepita@gmail.com>,
David Thompson <dthompson2@worcester.edu>,
"guile-user@gnu.org" <guile-user@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: A couple of questions about goops method parameters
Date: Sun, 07 Sep 2014 11:33:25 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8761gzen4a.fsf@ossau.homelinux.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ppf9g76m.fsf@taylan.uni.cx> (Taylan Ulrich Bayirli's message of "Fri, 05 Sep 2014 22:10:09 +0200")
Taylan Ulrich Bayirli/Kammer <taylanbayirli@gmail.com> writes:
> Panicz Maciej Godek <godek.maciek@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> [...] it's hard for me to see the advantage of FRP over OOP in
>> practical systems (e.g. windowed applications with buttons and so
>> on). [...]
>
> An off-topic remark:
>
> I don't know about *functional* reactive programming but from my
> experience so far as an iOS developer, I've been *longing* for a
> reactive programming system that automates state changes even if not
> fully hiding them. It would be invaluable being able to say
> "button2.leftEdge = button1.rightEdge + 20px" and have this equation be
> held automatically on changes to the layout of button1 (which might
> happen because it itself reacts to other layout changes), or to be able
> to say "button.disabled = condition1 or condition2" and have the
> disabled status of button update automatically as the truthiness of the
> conditions changes. (The former use-case is actually covered by "layout
> constraints", but that's strictly limited to layouting.)
IIRC, Metafont does that; but obviously it isn't intended as a general
language. Are there more general languages that solve equations like
this?
Regards,
Neil
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-09-07 10:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-09-03 2:05 A couple of questions about goops method parameters Carlos Pita
2014-09-03 15:49 ` Carlos Pita
2014-09-03 16:47 ` Marko Rauhamaa
2014-09-03 18:05 ` Carlos Pita
2014-09-03 16:20 ` Panicz Maciej Godek
2014-09-05 8:32 ` Nala Ginrut
2014-09-05 12:47 ` Carlos Pita
2014-09-05 19:03 ` Panicz Maciej Godek
2014-09-05 19:12 ` David Thompson
2014-09-05 19:35 ` Panicz Maciej Godek
2014-09-05 19:55 ` David Thompson
2014-09-05 20:10 ` Taylan Ulrich Bayirli/Kammer
2014-09-05 20:50 ` David Thompson
2014-09-07 10:33 ` Neil Jerram [this message]
2014-09-07 15:27 ` Taylan Ulrich Bayirli/Kammer
2014-09-05 20:10 ` Panicz Maciej Godek
2014-09-05 20:18 ` Taylan Ulrich Bayirli/Kammer
2014-09-05 20:37 ` Panicz Maciej Godek
2014-09-05 20:51 ` Marko Rauhamaa
2014-09-05 21:53 ` Taylan Ulrich Bayirli/Kammer
2014-09-05 22:26 ` Marko Rauhamaa
2014-09-05 20:44 ` Marko Rauhamaa
2014-09-05 21:08 ` Panicz Maciej Godek
2014-09-05 22:14 ` Marko Rauhamaa
2014-09-06 8:53 ` Panicz Maciej Godek
2014-09-06 10:44 ` Taylan Ulrich Bayirli/Kammer
2014-09-06 11:27 ` Marko Rauhamaa
2014-09-06 11:54 ` Taylan Ulrich Bayirli/Kammer
2014-09-06 23:46 ` Panicz Maciej Godek
2014-09-07 0:20 ` Marko Rauhamaa
2014-09-07 12:57 ` Taylan Ulrich Bayirli/Kammer
2014-09-07 13:58 ` Marko Rauhamaa
2014-09-07 16:46 ` Taylan Ulrich Bayirli/Kammer
2014-09-07 19:49 ` Marko Rauhamaa
2014-09-07 23:13 ` Taylan Ulrich Bayirli/Kammer
[not found] ` <CAPjoZoc7X7s+keog6avP62yvgJyQ3Ma_jomhw6xQq_rK9jnhVw@mail.gmail.com>
2014-09-06 16:57 ` Nala Ginrut
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