Mar.13.2017 -- CAlive to introduce a flexible this, static {..} blocks, and new validate keyword

[Rick C. Hodgin]

CAlive will introduce the ability to assign contextual values to this, allowing for dynamic data set manipulation while in a method.  CAlive will also introduce the ability to call non-static members statically, enabling a new static {..} block to run when called statically.  CAlive will also introduce a new validate keyword to handle this values which are still NULL.  The validate keyword works like return, except it returns conditionally only when this is NULL.  If this has a valid value, it will continue on and behave as a nop.

    class CXyz

    {

    public:

        CXyz();

        ~CXyz();

        int    abc             (int a, int b, int c);

        CXyz*  find_instance   (int a);

    private:

        static locked builder<CXyz> instances;   // Accessible to static functions

    }

    int CXyz::abc(int a, int b, int c)

    {

        static {

            this = CXyz::find_instance(a);

            validate -1;   // If this is still NULL, then it returns -1

        }

    }

    int main(int argc, char* argv[])

    {

        CXyz::abc(1, 0, 0);

    }

These will enable runtime settings to be employed dynamically, bringing forth a wide selection of data processing abilities.

Thank you,

Rick C. Hodgin