I've updated my fork of the monkey programming language to allow object-based method calls.
That's allowed me to move some of my "standard-library" code into Monkey, and out of Go which is neat. This is a simple example:
//
// Reverse a string,
//
function string.reverse() {
let r= "";
let l = len(self);
for( l > 0 ) {
r += self[l-1];
l--;
}
return r;
}
Usage is the obvious:
puts( "Steve".reverse() );
Or:
let s = "Input";
s = s.reverse();
puts( s + "\n" );
Most of the pain here was updating the parser to recognize that "." meant a method-call was happening, once that was done it was otherwise only a matter of passing the implicit self object to the appropriate functions.
This work was done in a couple of 30-60 minute chunks. I find that I'm only really able to commit to that amount of work these days, so I've started to pull back from other projects.
Oiva is now 21 months old and he sucks up all my time & energy. I can't complain, but equally I can't really start concentrating on longer-projects even when he's gone to sleep.
And that concludes my news for the day.