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Wow, this looks like a god-send. The @Jailbreak annotation would give mid-2000's Java coders a heart-attack :) The only contentious point I find is that they a

by iSnow 7y ago

Wow, this looks like a god-send. The @Jailbreak annotation would give mid-2000's Java coders a heart-attack :) The only contentious point I find is that they are basically replicating Project Lombok's @SneakyThrows annotation via "Xplugin:Manifold stringsexceptions" or ModelMapper in their Structural Typing. Furthermore it seems it should be structured in sub-projects, eg. the String-templates and ManTL in one lib, Structural Typing in another so we can mix & match. But overall, very impressive!

mckinney 7y ago
Thanks! The 'exceptions' option is quite a bit different from SneakyThrows. The 'exceptions' option completely mutes checked exceptions in your project -- you don't have to declare a throws clause or catch a checked exception anywhere in your code, thus with the option enabled checked exceptions behave exactly as unchecked exceptions. This behavior is identical to exception treatment in other JVM languages such as Scala, Kotlin, Ceylon, etc. Regarding sub-projects on extensions, I've been meaning to do that. The project is already divided into separate targets e.g., manifold-graphql, manifold-json, etc. But manifold-ext has probably grown too big for one target.
- iSnow 7y ago
  My god, I just read a bit more about the Extension Manifold, and that is crazy good. I am doing both Java and JS, and I started to like duck-typing and extending prototypes so much in some situations. Now, Extensions give me something similar in Java? I have the highest respect for your work, and no idea how you are doing that more or less on your own. I am just a bit sad your upcoming SQL/DDL extensions are going to kill one of my side-projects :) https://github.com/iSnow/sqlWebservice https://github.com/iSnow/sqlWebservice - if you can use a SQL schema as a type provider, you are leaps and bounds ahead of what I am doing there. So, hats off, great job.

by iSnow 7y ago

mckinney 7y ago

Thanks! The 'exceptions' option is quite a bit different from SneakyThrows. The 'exceptions' option completely mutes checked exceptions in your project -- you don't have to declare a throws clause or catch a checked exception anywhere in your code, thus with the option enabled checked exceptions behave exactly as unchecked exceptions. This behavior is identical to exception treatment in other JVM languages such as Scala, Kotlin, Ceylon, etc. Regarding sub-projects on extensions, I've been meaning to do that. The project is already divided into separate targets e.g., manifold-graphql, manifold-json, etc. But manifold-ext has probably grown too big for one target.

iSnow 7y ago
My god, I just read a bit more about the Extension Manifold, and that is crazy good. I am doing both Java and JS, and I started to like duck-typing and extending prototypes so much in some situations. Now, Extensions give me something similar in Java? I have the highest respect for your work, and no idea how you are doing that more or less on your own. I am just a bit sad your upcoming SQL/DDL extensions are going to kill one of my side-projects :) https://github.com/iSnow/sqlWebservice https://github.com/iSnow/sqlWebservice - if you can use a SQL schema as a type provider, you are leaps and bounds ahead of what I am doing there. So, hats off, great job.