Dynamic

[kevinresol]

I think Dynamic (without type parameter) should also be handled, we may simply pass a null to gen.dyn and let user handle it.

          case TDynamic(t):

            if(t == null)
                gen.dyn(null, null);
            else
                gen.dyn(gen.dynAccess(genType(t, pos)), t.toComplex());

For example, tink_json's GenWriter may be changed to:

  static public function dyn(e, ct) 
    if(e == null) throw "Dynamic without type parameter is not supported"; // add this line
    return macro {
      var value:haxe.DynamicAccess<$ct> = value;
      $e;
    }

Related: haxetink/tink_json#2

[back2dos]

Just to be clear here: plain Dynamic is not handled in the Dynamic<T> branch, but one can handle it in rescue. Hope that works for you.

[kevinresol]

@back2dos Thanks for the fix. Have been working on a runtime typecheck util and this lib really helped.
Btw, do you think it is a good enough util to be added to haxetink?

[back2dos]

Oooh, very interesting! I had plans for such a thing myself, but you beat me to it :D

I'm very honored by your offer to add your code to tink. However, I must warn you that I am strongly attached to this project (i.e. tink as a whole) and the spirit I started it in - which I cannot properly verbalize to this day. Chances are that I will occasionally confront you with rather idiosyncratic decisions, that I just can't explain but "feel" to be right. From working with Nicolas, I know how frustrating this can be, so I do try hard to make it better. But still, I feel that I should caution you. Ultimately, like all approaches, collaboration has its own challenges and rewards. If you feel up to it, I'd be thrilled to welcome you aboard. If not, I understand perfectly.

Either way, your lib is really cool! ;)

[kevinresol]

In fact, it is you beat me on this. I have this idea long time ago but I just don't have the skill to "make it right". Until I meet tink_typecrawler and tink_json, which give me the tool and example to finish it.

I truly understand that software designing is actually more art than science. Since I don't have much sense in this regard, I would be more than happy to hear comments from you.

btw, I am really really impressed by how useful yet simple and elegant the tink libraries are.

[back2dos]

Well then, welcome to the club!

And also, thank you for your kind words :)

[kevinresol]

Thanks! I transferred the repo, but after that I am unable to access the setting page to rename it...

[back2dos]

Ok, I changed a couple of permissions. Can you please try again?

[kevinresol]

Yes, it's ok now. Btw do you have any opinion on the repo name?