Prototypal

[alexispurslane]

I think it would be nice if Streem used prototypal inheritance and object literals, (as in JavaScript). This makes for a very light-weight, expressive, powerful, and most of all, quick OOP-type programming experience.

[alfa256]

When dealing with streams OOP obscures reasoning ( what type is this? does it have this function? does it have this property? Etc) , structs or dictionaries are better suited to improve code reuse, since you can simply check for fields and the values are either other structs or a built in variable type. Although dictionary/struct literals are ok for me, just no functions embedded inside data.

[alexispurslane]

Exactly. Prototypal objects are dictionaries/hashes that can optionally get properties from another object on it's prototype.

[nickserv]

👍 I agree, I like how lightweight prototypical inheritance is.

However, I'm not sure how this would work if Streem were to use static typing or some other sort of type checking. I guess something like Go's type checking could be used, where objects can be duck typed, but the types are still checked for the appropriate methods and fields at compile time.

[alexispurslane]

Yup. See #12, where I suggested soft-typing very similar to yours.