OOP

Are you tired of all of that modules, processes and functions nonsense? Do you want to just use classes, objects and methods? If so, use OOP [1] library in Elixir [2]!

[1] Actually, according to Alan Key, the inventor of OOP, "objects" is the lesser idea; the big idea is "messaging". In that sense, I can't agree more with Joe Armstrong's quote that Erlang is "possibly the only object-oriented language".

[2] Please don't. You've been warned.

Demo

Lightning Talks - Wojtek Mach (ElixirConfEU 2016)

Example

import OOP

class Person do
  var :name

  def say_hello_to(who) do
    what = "Hello #{who.name}"
    IO.puts("#{this.name}: #{what}")
  end
end

joe = Person.new(name: "Joe")
mike = Person.new(name: "Mike")
robert = Person.new(name: "Robert")

joe.say_hello_to(mike)    # Joe: Hello Mike
mike.say_hello_to(joe)    # Mike: Hello Joe
mike.say_hello_to(robert) # Mike: Hello Robert
robert.say_hello_to(mike) # Robert: Hello Mike

joe.set_name("Hipster Joe")
joe.name # => Hipster Joe

An OOP library wouldn't be complete without inheritance:

class Animal do
  var :name
end

class Dog < Animal do
  var :breed
end

snuffles = Dog.new(name: "Snuffles", breed: "Shih Tzu")
snuffles.name # => "Snuffles"
snuffles.breed # => "Shih Tzu"

... or multiple inheritance:

class Human do
  var :name
end

class Horse do
  var :horseshoes_on?
end

class Centaur < [Human, Horse] do
end

john = Centaur.new(name: "John", horseshoes_on?: true)
john.name # => "John"
john.horseshoes_on? # => true

See more usage in the test suite.

Installation

1. Add oop to your list of dependencies in mix.exs:

def deps do
  [{:oop, "~> 0.1.0"}]
end

2. Ensure oop is started before your application:

def application do
  [applications: [:oop]]
end

License

The MIT License (MIT)

Copyright (c) 2015 Wojciech Mach

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