Questions about List2Code and Passing Functions through Eval

[Anthony Souls]

My questions are in the snapshot, but I will reiterate them:

Why doesn't List2Code display a string for objects? Are objects encoded as bytes or something?

Secondly, is there any way to programmatically retrieve the object.func name to store as a string, then eval later, like "Obj2String" or something similar? 

I am going through the sample code to learn more of the language, and those are the two questions I had. Thx. 

[Mahmoud Fayed]

Hello Anthony

>> "Why doesn't List2Code display a string for objects? Are objects encoded as bytes or something?"

The List2Code is just a simple function written in Ring itself

You will find the source code here: https://github.com/ring-lang/ring/blob/master/libraries/stdlib/stdlibcore.ring#L1013

The function is designed to process lists that could have strings, numbers & nested lists

Objects are not part of the List2Code() design

If you need this feature, You can implement it

The function isObject() and Attributes() could be useful

URL: https://ring-lang.github.io/doc1.18/metaprog.html#attributes-function

Greetings,

Mahmoud

[Azzeddine Remmal]

Hello   Anthony

I had modified an existing list2code() in tocode() and added attributes to the object
I hope it helps you
And you can add functions of the object

Greetings

#--------------------------------------------------------------

#for printing

#--------------------------------------------------------------

func ToCode(aInput)

cCode = "["

lStart = True

for item in aInput

if !lStart cCode += ","+Char(32) else lStart = False ok

if isString(item)

item2 = item

item2 = substr(item2,'"','"+char(34)+"')

cCode += Char(32) +'"' + item2 + '"'

but isnumber(item)

cCode += Char(32) +""+item

but islist(item)

cCode += Windowsnl()

cCode += ToCode(item)

but isobject(item)

aAttribut = attributes(item)

cCode += '['

lStart = True

for attribut in aAttribut

if !lStart cCode += "," else lStart = False ok

value = getattribute(item,attribut)

cCode +=':'+ attribut + '='

if isString(value)

cCode += '"' + value + '"'

but isNumber(value)

cCode += value

but isList(value)

cCode += ToCode(value)

but isobject(value)

cCode += ToCode(value)

ok

next

cCode += " ]" +Windowsnl()

ok

next

cCode += Char(32)+"]"

return cCode

[Azzeddine Remmal]

[Anthony Souls]

Thanks, I will experiment with that later on. I am taking a break from the Ring Programming for a while. 

I was trying to modify Ring Notepad to have code folding, then realized it didn't support css style "display:none", which really foiled my idea, lol. 

Now, the only way to do it might be overly hackish, so I'm worn out :) 

It looks cool. Appreciate your time and energy into making it. I will check it out and see what I can do with it. I just thought that List2code should print out objects. I thought maybe it was stored in some format that prevented it, but I guess not. Like, get the object as code, then change the object through string manipulations, then translate it back into an object. I thought that would be a cool toy experiment, but yeah :) 

Thx

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