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Every object understands the message '' | Every object understands the message '' | ||
- | ===== Delegation and Dynamic Inheritance | + | AmbientTalk also provides a '' |
- | AmbientTalk features object inheritance or delegation. By means of delegation, an object can reuse and extend the defintion of another establishing a child-parent relationship. We identify two kinds of delegation relationships: | + | |
- | These relationships | + | < |
+ | > def clonedPoint := clone: point | ||
+ | </ | ||
+ | |||
+ | ===== Delegation and cloning | ||
+ | AmbientTalk features object inheritance or delegation. By means of delegation, an object can reuse and extend the defintion of another establishing a parent-child | ||
+ | |||
+ | |||
+ | {{: | ||
The following code shows how to extend objects with a **IS-A** relationship. It uses the '' | The following code shows how to extend objects with a **IS-A** relationship. It uses the '' | ||
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</ | </ | ||
+ | ===== Delegation and dynamic inheritance ===== | ||
+ | The parent of an object is bound to a field named '' | ||
- | ===== Delegation and cloning ===== | + | < |
+ | > def OpenConnection := object: {...}; | ||
+ | def ClosedConnection := object: {...}; | ||
+ | def Connection := object: { | ||
+ | def open() { | ||
+ | super := OpenConnection.new(); | ||
+ | }; | ||
+ | def close() { | ||
+ | super := ClosedConnection.new(); | ||
+ | }; | ||
+ | } | ||
+ | </ | ||
- | ===== First-class | + | ===== First-class |
+ | AmbientTalk provides an explicit delegation operator '' | ||
+ | |||
+ | < | ||
+ | > def point3D := extend: point with: { | ||
+ | def z := 0; | ||
+ | def init(aX, aY, aZ) { | ||
+ | super^init(aX, | ||
+ | z := aZ; | ||
+ | } | ||
+ | } | ||
+ | </ | ||
===== Encapsulation ===== | ===== Encapsulation ===== | ||
+ | In AmbientTalk, | ||
+ | < | ||
+ | > def makeObject(hidden) { | ||
+ | object: { | ||
+ | def foo() { /* use hidden */ } | ||
+ | } | ||
+ | } | ||
+ | </ | ||
+ | |||
+ | Due to the encapsulation of this object the following instruction fails: | ||
+ | |||
+ | < | ||
+ | > makeObject(5).hidden; | ||
+ | >> | ||
+ | < | ||
+ | </ |
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