Hi,
I have been thinking about the MO of scalax. In my life it has been (to a large degree) a library for helping write scripts and generally overcome many of the common annoyances of Java. Copying files and deleting diretories are the classic examples.
As such I had a couple of ideas that I would like to see included in the library. I am not asking anyone to write these. I will do that when time permits. I am just asking if there is interest.
So:
1. A mechanism for executing processes. The current one is quite hard to use and could be made much more functional in design. For example a function could be passed in for dealing with the Error stream
2. A way to essentially do dynamic invocation. As an example lets say we have an implicit conversion to a DynamicObject that has a --> operator (or maybe ~> ) or maybe we should skip the fancy sugar and just use invoke. So here is a small example
import scalax.reflect.DynamicObject._
val someObject = getSomeObject();
someObject ~> ("operate") (1,2,3)
this would run the operate method on someObject.
I think the simplified reflection would be handy because sometimes in scripting you just want to call a method and to heck with casting, type introspection and whatever else. And everyone knows how difficult Java reflection is to use.
Comments? Ideas? Suggestions?
Jesse
