Re: Breaking a circularity

["Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>]

"Gene" <gene.ressler@gmail.com> wrote in message 
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On Mar 28, 7:37 am, Simon Wright <si...@pushface.org> wrote:
>Yes and no.  The only reason for making Event_Queue generic is
>so that a State can be passed through the dispatching Handle call.
>Since this is an "in out" parameter that's invariably a record type,
>it's being passed by pointer behind the scenes.  Yet there doesn't
>seem
>to be a way to take advantage of *this* pointer for breaking the
>circularity.  (In (eeewwww) C  we could use a void* or other pointer
>trick here.)

The way we handled this problem in Claw was to make State an abstract tagged 
type (rather than using a generic). Then, the parameter to the Handle call 
can be class-wide, which allows it to access any extension of the type.

I suspect that this also breaks the circularity (since the State type 
doesn't need to be defined until much later), but I haven't tried to figure 
it out.

                    Randy.