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Re: Problem defining a class implementing an interface nested in a class
Great, thanks very much, Per.
On 2 March 2011 10:31, Per Bothner <per@bothner.com> wrote:
> On 03/01/2011 02:02 AM, Colin Fleming wrote:
>>
>> On 28 February 2011 20:38, Per Bothner<per@bothner.com> ?wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Also I think I should also be able to do (according to something I'm
>>>> sure I saw in the doc but now can't find):
>>>
>>> Perhaps http://www.gnu.org/software/kawa/PathExpressions.html
>>
>> That's the one.
>>
>>> Now that I have a new "Syntax" section in the manual, I have a
>>> place in the Kawa manual where I can put an updated specification of
>>> colon notation. ?I will do that.
>>
>> Great, thanks. This is something that's very important for Java
>> interop and fairly underspecified in the manual.
>>
>> Thanks for the detailed explanation, too - I'll have to dig around in
>> the code a bit to see the various hacks, since I'll have to handle
>> them in the editing mode I'm working on. Any pointers as to where I
>> should start looking, or brief descriptions of more or less what they
>> do?
>
> I'll try to write something up in the next few days.
>
> Colon notation is implemented by GetNamedPart.java (and
> CompileNamedPart.java).
>
> Given: obj:part
>
> - If obj implements HasNamedPart, HasNamedPart.get is used.
> ?NameSpace is a special case.
>
> - If obj is a Class or ObjectType, we get the static member
> (i.e. static field, member, or member class).
>
> - If obj is a Package, we get the member class or sub-package.
>
> - Otherwise, we look for a named member/property/field.
>
> Details to be added to manual ...
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> ? ? ? ?--Per Bothner
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