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Object-method Reform: - changed interface to object specific commands by requiring an ensemble named "object". The rational behind is essentially to use always the same info command to retrieve object specific methods, no matter whether these are defined on a plain object or an a class object (does not break the "contract" what e.g. "info method" returns).

Now we define methods via:

/cls/ method foo {args} {...body...}

/cls/ object method foo {args} {...body...}

/obj/ object method foo {args} {...body...}

Similarly, aliases, forwards and mixins are defined, e.g.

/cls/ mixin add ...

/cls/ object mixin add ...

/obj/ object mixin add ...

/obj/ require object method ...

The same change propagated as well to the "info" method.

Now we have:

/cls/ info methods ...

/cls/ info object methods ...

/obj/ info object methods ...

Similar, the object parametererization uses

/cls/ create obj -object-mixin M

/cls/ create obj -object-filter f

/metacls/ create cls -mixin M1 -object-mixin M2

/metacls/ create cls -filter f1 -object-filter f2

- as a consequence,

a) "/cls/ class method ...",

"/cls/ class alias ...",

"/cls/ class forward ...",

"/cls/ class filter ...",

"/cls/ class mixin ...",

"/cls/ class info ..."

"/obj/ class method require method ..."

"/obj/ class method require public method ..."

"/obj/ class method require protected method ..."

"/obj/ class method require private method ..."

were dropped

b) "/obj/ method ....",

"/obj/ alias ....",

"/obj/ forward ...."

"/obj/ filter ...."

"/obj/ mixin ...."

"/obj/ info method*"

"/cls/ create obj -mixin M"

"/cls/ create obj -filter f"

"/obj/ method require method ..."

"/obj/ method require public method ..."

"/obj/ method require protected method ..."

"/obj/ method require private method ..."

were dropped

- added package nx::class to allow optionally the "class" notation

"/cls/ class method ..." (and friends, see (a)), and

"/cls/ class info ...

- added package nx::plain-object-method to allow optionally plain method

b) "/obj/ method ...." (and friends, see (b))

- add support to slots to use ensemble methods as setters

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- nsf.c: start all error messages with a lower case word for consistency and to follow closer to Tcl's conventions

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- alias reform: instead of calling first an alias with a stack frame followed by the dispatched of the aliased cmd, resolve aliases internally in dispatch. This has the advantage that we do not have to ignore the "transparent" stack frame in some sitations, and we have much less problems with the names of the aliased cmds (e.g. objects) in the introspection methods. Additionally, several problem cases disappeared from the regression test cases. In addition, the new approach is faster. - eliminating obsolete flag NSF_CSC_CALL_IS_TRANSPARENT

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- fixed bug with recursive aliases - extended regression test

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- make sure to use "XOTcl 2.0" instead of just XOTcl in "package req" to avoid confusions due to beta state - remove more obsolete and untested files

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- rename "info method handle /methodName/" into "info method registrationhandle /methodName/" - rename "info method origin /methodName/" into "info method definitionhandle /methodName/" - added "info method origin" to return the target of an alias (or empty)

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- further cleanup and extend regression test

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nsf.c: * fixed recration of object alias with a alias to a different cmd

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- nsf.c: * minor cleanup * added regression tests

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- nx.tcl * renamed "attribute" to "property" * renamed "defaultAttributeCallProtection" to "defaultPropertyCallProtection" * renamed "nx::Attribute" to ""nx::VariableSlot" * renamed "BootStrapAttributeSlot" to "BootStrapVariableSlot" * renamed "createBootstrapAttributeSlots" to "createBootstrapVariableSlots" * removed method attributes * implemented old attributes definition in xotcl2 as method "parameter"

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- test.tcl: * don't export Test per-default * define Test as nx::Test * make Test parameter count 1 the default, change to higher numbers where needed

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* Hopefully the last big naming change: Instead of writing "C class-object method foo {} {...}" one can write now "C class method foo {} {...}" to define a class method named "foo" for class "C". This naming change became possible by defining XOTcl's "class" (and "superclass") as object parameter only. To change a class of an object o, one has to use "o configure -class NEWCLASS". The term "object-class" looks alien to language beginners, the term "class" is much more straightforward. Changing classes or superclasses is seldomly used by typicall application programs.

For already existing nx scripts, changing "object-class" into

class should be straightforward.

* various documentation updates (migration guide, nx tutorial)

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- changed names of var handling commands in nsf: ::nsf::existsvar => ::nsf::var::exists ::nsf::importvar => ::nsf::var::import ::nsf::setvar => ::nsf::var::set

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- changed named of method handling commands in nsf: ::nsf::methodproperty => ::nsf::method::property ::nsf::method => ::nsf::method::create ::nsf::methoddelete => ::nsf::method::delete ::nsf::alias => ::nsf::method::alias ::nsf::forward => ::nsf::method::forward ::nsf::setter => ::nsf::method::setter (updated regression test, docs, ...)

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- added experimental flag WITH_IMPORT_REFS to deactivate automated alias deletion (seems, that this solves all issues we had before) - added flushing of bytecode on alias registration - added regression test

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- added flag to AliasGet() to leave optional error message if alias data is removed - some cleanup in NsfProcAliasMethod(): handle not existing alias data, more careful refcounting

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- added regression test

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- use NsfCommandPreserve/NsfCommandRelease for tcd->aliasCmd as well. In case of epoched cmdPointers, refetch the cmd and it client data.

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- nx.tcl: * full rewrite of slot machinerie, much simpler structure * relation handling via parameter aliases instread of pseudo converter * mixinclass SlotOptimizer removed * new class BootStrapAttributeSlot

- ConvertToRelation() and handling of parametertype "relation"

- Make CompiledColonVarFetch() more robust in case of

half initialized objects (create vartable on the fly if needed)

- allow empty parameter options in parameter parser

- removed nsf::parametersfromslots (became simple, part of objectparameter now)

- removed hardcoded objectparameter (attributes, volatile and noinit)

- updated regression test

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- renamed nx regression tests .test to follow tcl conventions

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