[REBOL] Rebol3 Plugins and Datatypes
From: gchillemi::aliceposta::it at: 17-Dec-2007 13:50
As I have written I am an old school programmer which is passing to Rebol.
I have understood that Rebol is all about coomunicating. It really helps
developers in this task.
Now Rebol 3 is under development and I have read nothing about the new
plugins system and datatype system.
I imagine things like:
- having arrays of PDF and Word Files opened;
- doing things like mydocument/newpage or mydocument/deletepage;
- interrogating data type with PDF? or MSWORD? funtions.
Other things I imagine are
- passing this data trought the net;
- retrieving a complex object from a database;
- retrieving all the methods defined for a plugin;
- accessing object data through the classic path mechanism
mydocument/author: "My Name" or set mydocument 'author: "My Name"
Things I don't see is methods inheritance, overriding, modification of the
plugins functions from inside the script.
Questions regards the plugins framework too:
- How it should a plugin or datatype be written to integrate with Rebol 3;
- will native (r3) plugins be possible;
- will be possible to have datatype which loads in memory a portion of data
by request and have an array of them ?
There are even exoteric stuffs in my mind like having "metaplugins" written
in a common interpeted language to be portable accross platforms ...
I just wanted to share the content of my mind with you and ask which of what
I have written will be implemented in Rebol 3?
Giuseppe Chillemi
