In Ring 1.25 (GitHub) - Better Call command

[Mahmoud Fayed]

Hello

This is one of the new features provided by Ring 1.25 (under development)

The Call command has been enhanced to allow invoking a function as an object method.

We do this by placing braces after the Call keyword.

Syntax:

Call { Variable([Parameters]) }

Example:

fCheck = func { ? copy("=",50) ? "One day, I will no longer remain just a function." ? "One day, I will live as a method inside an object." ? "That object will have a place in a 3D world." ? "And it will have the x, y, and z attributes." Try ? "X= " + x # Use Attributes ? "Y= " + y ? "Z= " + z ? "The dream has come true." print() # Call Method Catch ? "Not yet!" Done } call fCheck() # Call fCheck as Function new point { x=10 y=20 z=30 call {fCheck()} } # Call fCheck as Method class Point x y z func print ? self

Output:

================================================== One day I will not stay as a function One day I will live as a method inside an object This object will have a place in a 3D world And will have the x,y and z attributes Not yet! ================================================== ================================================== One day I will not stay as a function One day I will live as a method inside an object This object will have a place in a 3D world And will have the x,y and z attributes X= 10 Y= 20 Z= 30 The dream has come true. x: 10 y: 20 z: 30

Greetings,

Mahmoud

[Mansour Ayouni]

Hello Mahmoud,

This is a wonderful feature!!

Function becomes a reusable coding construct that adapts to any object context...

I asked ClaudeAI to think of the possible applications of this feature:

https://claude.ai/share/6ef0eb5c-40e1-4306-be12-7dfdf9c895d1

KEEP INNOVATING,

Mansour

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[Mahmoud Fayed]

Hello Mansour

>> "I asked ClaudeAI to think of the possible applications of this feature:"

Thank you very much — I enjoyed reading the samples. I think they need very little modification to be fully usable

In practice, instead of using AddMethod(), which add method permanently to the class, the new feature allows us to call temporary methods that can be executed as if they were object methods without becoming part of the class itself. These temporary methods can also be passed as parameters.

This feature was introduced to improve the performance of the Natural Library, but as you mentioned, it opens the door to many additional use cases.

Since we don't pass the object as parameter to the function, this function could be written without knowledge about being an object method, it could use global variables or object attributes based on the usage context.

Greetings,

Mahmoud

[Mansour Ayouni]

Hello Mahmoud,

Thank you for your feedback.

All the best,

Mansour

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[Mahmoud Fayed]

Hello Mansour

You are welcome :D

Greetings,

Mahmoud