Javis.jl – Julia Animations and Visualizations

Re:Javis.jl – Julia Animations and Visualizations by oxinabox on Sunday August 01, 2021 @03:27PM (#28029093)

Why does Javis use `act!(object, action)` rather than making actions callable structs so you could do `action(object)` ?

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Re:Javis.jl – Julia Animations and Visualizations by Mageek on Monday August 02, 2021 @01:52AM (#28033313)

Julia is not object-oriented. If you want to dispatch on the type of action, you include it in the method signature.

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Re:Javis.jl – Julia Animations and Visualizations by DNF2 on Monday August 02, 2021 @10:15AM (#28036789)

Actually, callable structs are a common pattern in Julia, and are not in opposition to multiple dispatch.

You are probably thinking of dot-method syntax, like this

  object.action()

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Re:Javis.jl – Julia Animations and Visualizations by StefanKarpinski on Sunday August 01, 2021 @09:53PM (#28032110)

Might make it easier to dispatch on both the object and the action? Just a wild guess.

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Re:Javis.jl – Julia Animations and Visualizations by oxinabox on Monday August 02, 2021 @06:41PM (#28043607)

Right, can't to abstract callable overloads in older versions of julia

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