On So, 27 Aug 2023, Yegappan Lakshmanan wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 27, 2023 at 11:09 AM Christian Brabandt <cbli...@256bit.org>
> wrote:
> >
> > I would think once Yegappan thinks the Vim9 classes is good enough to
> > release, I'd go ahead. Not sure how much work this is left to be done,
> > but I'd rather sooner release than later. So it depends on how far we
> > want the Vim9 classes implementation have ready for the new release.
> >
>
> The following Vim 9 class related items are currently in the todo list:
>
> 1. Change access: public by default, private by prefixing "_".
> 2. Check for error: can't have the same name twice (ignoring "_" prefix).
> 3. "final" object members - can only be set in the constructor.
> 4. Support export/import of classes and interfaces.
> 5. Cannot use class type of itself in the method (Issue #12369)
> 6. Cannot use an object method in a lambda (Issue #12417)
> 7. Cannot call class member of funcref type (Issue #12324)
> 8. Using a list of functions does not work (Issue #12081)
> 9. First argument of call() cannot be "obj.Func". (Issue #11865)
> 10. Make ":defcompile ClassName" compile all functions and methods in the
> class.
> 11. Support forward declaration of a class. E.g. for Clone() function.
> 12. Getting a member variable with "any" type should be handled at runtime.
> 13. "obj.Method()" does not always work in a compiled function, assumes "obj"
> is a dictionary. (Issue #12196, #12024, #11822, #12198, #11981)
> 14. Support empty(), len() for objects.
> 15. Check types for "implements" - members and methods
> 16. Support locking and unlocking objects/classes.
> 17. When checking "implements" also check types of members and function args.
> 18. For chaining, allow using the class name as type for function return
> value.
> 19. Implement generics
> 20. Add "assignable" (class or child)?
> 21. Use a more efficient way for interface member index than iterating
> over list.
> 22. Implement a variant of type() that returns a different type for each
> class.
> 23. Support class local to a function.
> 24. Support promise class, could be used to wait on a popup close callback.
>
> Other than the first two items, I don't think we can get to the other items in
> this list for the 9.1 release.
That makes sense. Once the first two are included, we can have a one or
two week stability phase (to fix only crashes and other regressions)
before we push out the release. That will be an interesting exercise...
Thanks,
Christian
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