[BLACKBOX] Coco and methods

From: [at]} <Aubrey.McIntosh{>
Date: Thu, 28 May 2009 10:02:38 -0500

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I'm at that point in the project when I want to change all the
libraries and tools instead of going ahead with the work in front of
me.

However, this is one change that I think of over and over, so I'll mention it.

I use the object capability in Blackbox a fair amount in my current
approach. I also have a tendency to cast problems as something that
can be approached with a Coco grammar.

I wonder if it makes sense to add some support of type bound methods
to Coco. Possibly something very constrained, such as

PRODUCTIONS
    scanner.Key = ident.
    scanner.Value = number.
    scanner.Entry = scanner.Key "=" scanner.Value.

Where the scanner base is implicitly defined in the Scanner module,
and extended in the parser module.

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