[Laszlo-dev] tagnames

[P T Withington]

I see what you are getting at, but doing so would break this invariant:

   lz[this.constructor.tagname] == this.constructor

which is presently true for all classes.  We would have to say that  
for 'anonymous' classes that does not hold.  That's probably ok, but I  
expect that is why it is currently the way it is (at some point in the  
evolution, the anonymous classes were instantiated with a tagname  
which had to be unique; now that they are instantiated directly with  
their classname, we could avoid creating the unique tagnames).

Perhaps there should be some amendment to the debugger also to print  
these anonymous classes in a prettier fashion too.

On 2008-08-05, at 13:43EDT, André Bargull wrote:

> An user asked me on the forum (http://forum.openlaszlo.org/showthread.php?t=12198 
> ):
>
>> what i want to ask is:
>> does OL support the original "tagname" in customized instances  
>> (constraint and method filled in tag )?
>> or
>> it is a defect?
>
> So, whenever an anonymous class was created (because of constraints,  
> handlers etc), do we provide a way to retrieve the original tagname?
> In my mind, a reasonable question, names like "/button_$ 
> $2Etmp_C697C77B63C2714AA45A51E9F3163AFA_hello$2Elzx_2_32/" look ugly  
> and do confuse people (at least me when I see those names in the  
> debugger :-) ).
>
>
> ---
> And I don't want to get this answer: ;-)
>> /foo/.constructor.prototype.constructor.tagname
>