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[Amos Wenger <amoswenger@xxxxxxxxx>]

I think that 'setter with multiple values' qualifies as 'you should use a
method instead'. Maybe as a revision in a later ORC, but even if we limit
ourselves to the suggested features here, it'll still not be trivial to
implement.

On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 11:30 PM, Scott Olson <scott@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> There is a problem with the current implementation and doing that, Josh. As
> my ORC describes, the argument of the setter's type is checked against the
> type of the property. It would only be able to accept a tuple if the
> properties type was a tuple, and that just fits in with all the other
> collections I mentioned. Now, there was some discussion about having
> multiple setters with different types for a single property, but for now, I
> think nddrylliog wants to keep it simple, which seems like a good idea.
>
>
> On Wed, 31 Mar 2010, Josh Roesslein wrote:
>
>  Also once we have tuples, multiple setter values would also be possible.
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 8:31 AM, Scott Olson <scott@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> wrote:
>>      If you want to set multiple values in one property, I think you
>> should be using an array or a vector class or any other collection class.
>>
>>         numbers: ArrayList<Int> {
>>             set(list) {
>>                 // ...
>>             }
>>             get
>>         }
>>
>>         someclass numbers = [1, 2]
>>
>>      And then there are no extra changes needed.
>>
>>
>> On Tue, 30 Mar 2010, Tres Walsh wrote:
>>
>>      Looks pretty good.
>>
>>      I noticed that in all of your examples you use set(value)
>>
>>      would it be make any sense to allow setters to take multiple
>> arguments?
>>
>>      for instance
>>
>>        set(value1, value2) { this number = value1 ^ value2 }
>>        someclass number = 1, 2
>>
>>      Please note the above example is poor at best. And I can't think of
>>      any cases where this would happen. I'm just trying to generate
>>      discussion =)
>>
>>      On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 9:50 PM, Scott Olson <scott@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> wrote:
>>            I have created a draft ORC for the new Property syntax that was
>> much
>>            discussed in the IRC channel. I hope it is informative and
>> exlempatory of
>>            what an ORC should look like. ^.^
>>
>>            Link:
>> http://github.com/tsion/middleearth/blob/master/drafts/Properties.md
>>
>>            - Scott Olson
>>
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