It would be of interest to hear from interested Cocoa/GNUstep
developers to get second opinions but also to hear how they think
new features like for instance the missing class variables should
work. Yet, we don't want to bloat the new language. Additions will
be subtle and few.
A first glimpse on what ObjM2 looks like can be found here ...
I'm an ordinary Cocoa developer with no knowledge of Pascal/Modula-2.
I've just looked at the Wikipedia page and it's quite interesting for
me, but there's still a lot of information missing. I have just one
remark about the proposed syntax:
Category syntax is a bit odd from my point of view. Their name
doesn't always appear together with the respective class name (in
ObjC: Class(Category)). This fact and the EXTENDS keyword makes me
think of inheritace (that's also what it means in Java - another
Cocoa/GNUstep language) rather than categories. Also as noted on the
Wikipedia page categories don't necessarily "extend" the class, they
can just replace some methods.
What about using this more ObjC-like syntax:
INTERFACE MODULE ClassY(CategoryX);
(* ... *)
END ClassY(CategoryX).
IMPLEMENTATION MODULE ClassY(CategoryX);
(...)
END ClassY(CategoryX).
instead of the current one:
INTERFACE MODULE CategoryX EXTENDS ClassY;
(* ... *)
END CategoryX.
IMPLEMENTATION MODULE CategoryX;
(...)
END CategoryX.
I suppose that this is a better way to go if you want your extensions
to be as close to ObjC as possible. The current syntax would be
confusing for both ObjC and Java developers.
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