Useful shortcuts

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Sidharth Kulkarni edited this page Apr 6, 2016 · 1 revision

Here are some useful shortcuts relevant to MOO programming. However, they have some pitfalls that must be kept in mind.

(obj:verb-name arg1 arg2 ...) => (verbcall obj "verb-name" (arg1 arg2 ...))
obj.prop-name => (getprop obj "prop-name")

obj, verb-name, and prop-name in all of these cannot be expressions, they must be simple symbols. For example, the following will NOT work:

(parent obj).name
(obj:(cat "verb-" "name"))
(obj.prop:verb argument)

The transformations occur during lexical analysis and are meant to be simple convenience macros.