[Laszlo-dev] Constraint function generator

[P T Withington]

On 2008-02-20, at 08:03 EST, Donald Anderson wrote:

>>
>> I agree with you and Henry that it will be more useful going  
>> forward if you accept an arbitrary expression (as a string) and  
>> return the expression that computes the dependencies for that (also  
>> as a string).  Thus, to retrofit your code to the current "pattern"  
>> you would analyze the expression that is the second argument to  
>> setAttribute in the current constraint functions.
>>
>> Are you doing this in RingDing?  I think that would be the best  
>> place, since then we can test against the known-working test cases.
>
> At the moment I'm in devildog, but there's nothing that's branch- 
> specific at this point.
> As for testing, if you want me to retrofit the current code in  
> compiler/NodeModel.java to use this
> directly, well that could be done and tested in either branch, right?
> The branch doesn't matter to me - but whether I retrofit (or merely  
> provide
> a new internal API) does...

I was just suggesting the retrofit as a testing path (and for code- 
sharing).  Up to you.

I'd like to have this in Ringding, so I can take advantage of it for  
the work I am doing (continuing down the path of making userclasses be  
class declarations).