Changes between Version 164 and Version 165 of j2p

Timestamp:

11/14/24 09:59:07 (5 months ago)

Author:

wouter

Comment:

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j2p

@@ -118 +118 @@
 Note that that translated class will be in package p.a, rather than inside class p.A. Therefore this mechanism, has limited use in practice.
 
-Otherwise, no support is available. This includes anonymous inner classes. You can not import, call or use inner classes. This is for many reasons but the brief summary:
+Otherwise, no support is available. So if you try to translate a class that has an inner class, the translator will fail. This includes anonymous inner classes. 
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+This is for many reasons but the brief summary:
 * The useful variant of inner class is the non-static inner class. This class can access fields in the enclosing class.
 * Python does not support accessing fields of the enclosing class unless some tricks are applied. But these tricks would break uniformity of constructors.
@@ -129 +131 @@
 
 ===== Example workaround
+The following is an example of the tricky case: an inner class that calls methods in the parent class. 
 Java has the arrow notation (x,y) -> methodcall(x,y) to write lambda expressions. 
-This notation can also be translated. This feature is especially useful when pulling inner classes out of a parent class, to pass parent class functions over to the pulled-out class. 
+This notation can also be translated. This feature is especially useful in the parent class to make references to methods the inner class needs. 
 For example, suppose you have a class like this
 
@@ -148 +151 @@
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-The "new X" call has to be converted into an explicit class, but somehow it needs to be able to call f and g. We suggest to do it like this:
+The "new X" call has to be converted into an explicit class, but somehow it needs to be able to call f and g in the Parent class. We suggest to do it like this:
 
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