A synthesis of new capabilities in Synergy/DE version 9

As I threatened in my last post, I’ve combined a lot of my Synergy/DE version 9 work into a single library, which I have named “synthesis”.  Why synthesis?

• It’s a synthesis of most of my explorations of what I can do with Synergy/DE version 9.
• The programming model is a synthesis of object-oriented and functional programming.
• The terminology synthesizes vocabulary from Lisp, Ruby, C++, .NET, and historical Synergy/DE.
• It needed to start with "syn" to fit my tagging conventions here on ChipsTips.
• It embodies my “thesis” on the future of Synergy/DE programming.

Included in the download below are all the sources, mixins, tests, documentation, and PVCS archives for the synthesis library.  You can also access the documentation online here.  As usual, this content is published under the Open Works License, so you’re free to pull it apart, modify it, and reuse it in any application, commercial or personal, open or closed source – but please retain credit for the author (and I’d appreciate a link back here).

In the root directory you will find setenv.sh and setenv.bat.  These are scripts to setup the environment variables used for building the library.  setenv.sh is a *nix shell script, and setenv.bat is a Windows batch file.  If you don’t want to use the PVCS archives, also set NOVCS=1 in your environment.  Next, you’ll see the following directories:

• sources – here’s where you build the library, which ends up in the main directory.
• mixins – include files for mixins
• prototypes – you’ll need to create this directory to hold the dbh files
• tests – build the unit tests here
• documentation – full documentation, starting at index.html

The build assumes you have PVCS Configuration Builder, so if you don’t you will need to translate makefile.mak in the sources and tests directories to whatever build script you prefer.

Enhancements

One of my reasons for combining these modules into a single library was so I could add more enhancements without duplicating effort.  Here are a few that I have added already:

• assertions – added default error messages, separated code from macros, added pass().
• Added new file and console classes.
• elapsedtime class – publish datetime_struct, add StartTime property.
• ls class – added from(@Hash), ToHash, poplast, last, mapnonull, find, findall.  Changed kv macro to make_pair.
• Added new mapper functors MapMatches and MapReplace.
• Added modulo to MapVar.
• var – added modulo, match, and replace.  Added versions of the binary mathematical operators for cases when only the second operand is a var.
• Changed the namespace to “Synthesis”
• Combined all .defines in the new include file synthesis.def.
• Standardized all filenames to lowercase for *nix compatibility.
• Achieved full compatibility with Synergy/DE versions 9.1.5 and 9.2 beta.

I’m just getting warmed up, folks.