factory naming

My plea over at curlap.com is this  Monday-morning on Thursday-morning whine:

I wonder if a Curl engineer has a moment to add from-String to those classes using from-string as that is generally our pattern and as we also only have to-String

Such a small but maddening thing

( yes, I know: "consistency is the ... " ;-)


humor: APL from STSC had "laod" as well as "load" - just as some Smalltalkers need "slef" for "self" ...

Curl versus prototype.js

Here is what the prototype.js site suggests:

var Person = Class.create({
  initialize: function(name) {
    this.name = name;
  },
  say: function(message) {
    return this.name + ': ' + message;
  }
});

var Pirate = Class.create(Person, {
  say: function($super, message) {
    return $super(message) + ', yarr!';
  }
});

Here is my Curl equivalent

{define-class public Person
  field public-get private-set name:String
  {method public {say msg:String}:String
    {return {String self.name, ": ", msg}}
  }
  {constructor {default name:String}
    set self.name = name
  }
}

{define-class public Pirate {inherits Person}
  {constructor {default name:String}
    {construct-super name}
  }
  {method public {say msg:String}:String
    {return {String {super.say msg}, ", yarr!"} }
  }
}

Now here is my naive test code:

{output {{Pirate "Long-John"}.say "ahoy matey"}}

and here is the output:
Long-John: ahoy matey, yarr!

Note the lack of sigil's, var's and strange parenthetical matings.
But Curl also has 3D graphics and 2D paths and db interfaces and an IDE ... and now generates Android app's. Oh ... and a debugging environment with graphical inspectors and color outline  and fill debug inspection highlighters ... and is almost Smalltalk-ish LISP.
And from the same DARPA project as WWW.  SCSK Curl  (formerly MIT Curl).
Did I mention multiple inheritance? Mix-in's ? Anonymous proc's? Async workers?

{after (10s * long-wait) do

   {more-than-HTML-JS-lib for-the-web}

}
|| public classes, library classes, packages, imports, includes, macros, enums, Array-2-of
|| abstract classes, final classes, sealed classes, shared, serializable,deprecated,open ...