Ah, *functional* mutators. I've been reading the words for the past several months, but I just now finally got the message. :-)
On Sun, Aug 1, 2010 at 6:42 PM, Matthias Felleisen <matth...@ccs.neu.edu> wrote: > > So when define-struct introduces functional mutators as planned for a while > now, and this program looks like this: > > (cond > [(mouse-in? 248 x 424 570 y 649) (set-world-background blah)] > ... > > Matthew will be happy? > > > > On Aug 1, 2010, at 6:14 PM, Todd O'Bryan wrote: > >> You'd create the new world and set field values using mutators. >> >> So >> >> if (x > 248 && x < 424 && y > 570 && y < 649) { >> SState newState = new SState(); >> newState.setBackground(blah); >> newState.setButton(blah2); >> ... >> } >> >> On Sun, Aug 1, 2010 at 5:22 PM, Richard Cleis <rcl...@mac.com> wrote: >>> [snip] >>> >>> I was trying to emphasize that it may be harder to students to keep their >>> code neater compared to some other languages which usually have code that >>> rarely exceed 1 line. >>> Example: >>> Racket using the universe teachpack: >>> (define (s-mouse-engine s x y event) >>> (cond >>> [(and >>> (and (> x 248) (< x 424)) >>> (and (> y 570) (< y 649))) >>> (make-S-STATE >>> (get-s-background s) ;;I have made methods here to >>> reduce length, but other wise it would be longer. >>> (make-button >>> (s-mouse-engine-worker1 event "button-img") >>> (get-s-button-x s) ;;I have made methods here to >>> reduce length, but other wise it would be longer. >>> (get-s-button-y s) ;;I have made methods here to >>> reduce length, but other wise it would be longer. >>> (s-mouse-engine-worker1 event "button-initiate")))] >>> >>> How would you write that in another language that rarely exceeds one line? >>> rac >>> _________________________________________________ >>> For list-related administrative tasks: >>> http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/users >>> >> _________________________________________________ >> For list-related administrative tasks: >> http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/users > > _________________________________________________ For list-related administrative tasks: http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/users