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norswap
05/18/2017, 10:20 PMmost languages are not made for building compilers - c
cedric
05/18/2017, 10:20 PMThat’s a strange statement - n
norswap
05/18/2017, 10:21 PMabout languages and compilers? - c
cedric
05/18/2017, 10:21 PMYeah - c
cedric
05/18/2017, 10:21 PMLanguages are not typically designed for a specific purpose, just to write code. - c
codeslubber
05/18/2017, 10:21 PMspeaking of performance, @cedric the other day there was a discussion about a when statement with is in it as being reflection - c
cedric
05/18/2017, 10:22 PM@codeslubber Try again in English? 🙂 - n
norswap
05/18/2017, 10:22 PMyes, but you have needs that are not fairly common in other types of codebase (typically web apps, mobiles apps, server stuff, crud, business logic, ..., even games) - c
codeslubber
05/18/2017, 10:22 PMsomeone put a when statement snippet in the channel - c
codeslubber
05/18/2017, 10:22 PMthat had is statements in each check and you said - c
codeslubber
05/18/2017, 10:22 PMit was reflective - c
codeslubber
05/18/2017, 10:22 PMI have a similar question I wanted to get your take on - c
cedric
05/18/2017, 10:23 PMah yes - c
codeslubber
05/18/2017, 10:23 PMsupposing I want to write some code that maps objects - c
codeslubber
05/18/2017, 10:23 PMinto n dimensional space - c
codeslubber
05/18/2017, 10:23 PMwhere each property - c
codeslubber
05/18/2017, 10:23 PMis on an axis - n
norswap
05/18/2017, 10:23 PMlike I would die for a real good solution to the expression problem (basically, being able to add dynamically dispatched extension methods) - c
codeslubber
05/18/2017, 10:23 PMI wanted to store a ref to the getter - c
codeslubber
05/18/2017, 10:23 PMthat works beautifully, e.g. PropertlyListing::bedrooms - c
cedric
05/18/2017, 10:23 PM@norswap the expression problem is interesting from a theoretical standpoint but doesn’t tell you much about the practical abilities of a language - c
codeslubber
05/18/2017, 10:24 PMhowever, there are different types - c
codeslubber
05/18/2017, 10:24 PMso I have to use KProperty<*, *> and then do casts - c
cedric
05/18/2017, 10:24 PM@codeslubber Can you unify them through a common interface, maybe a lambda? - c
codeslubber
05/18/2017, 10:24 PMwhich are flagged as unchecked - c
codeslubber
05/18/2017, 10:24 PMyeah that’s what I was thinking - n
norswap
05/18/2017, 10:24 PM@cedric my interest is very very practical - c
codeslubber
05/18/2017, 10:24 PMjust forget that and use a lambda - c
codeslubber
05/18/2017, 10:24 PMthanks - c
codeslubber
05/18/2017, 10:24 PMjust trying to make it so the user of the plotting code has to know almost nothing