Example Brick defmethod 025

 

 

Description

This example uses the added method addUtilities which will add a new bill to the sum owed for Utilities in a Brick.

 

Details

Define a method addUtilities which adds the amount in the Utilities field.

(defmethod Brick: addUtilities: (s) (r) (+= r.Utilities bill)) Returns: #<Dictionary 123456>

Define a Brick that contains the amount of each bill for this month.

(define monthlyBills (new Brick: 20 Name:Object:1 Mortgage:Number:1 Utilities:Number:1 Visa:Number:1)) Returns: #<Record 123456>

Sets the values of the Brick field.

(setq monthlyBills.Name #("John Doe")) Returns: #<Record 123456>
(setq monthlyBills.Mortgage: 2100.0) Returns: #<Record 123456>
(setq monthlyBills.Utilities: 100.0) Returns: #<Record 123456>
(setq monthlyBills.Visa: 600.0) Returns: #<Record 123456>

Invoke the method named addUtilities to compute the total amount checks for Utilities written for the month. The arguments to the function are the Brick name and a Number value.

(send addUtilities: monthlyBills 300.0) Returns: #<Record 123456>

The method can be invoked simply by name:

(addUtilities: monthlyBills 300) Returns: #<Record 123456>

Notes and Hints

To view the entry in the methods Dictionary created by the addMethod function, you can use the method name to access the directory entry by

#<Dictionary 123456>[methodName:] or

To determine the number of assigned methods:

(length (methodsOf Brick: ))

To access the nth method name:

(methodsOf Brick: )[n 0]

To view the Methods Dictionary:

(display (methodsOf Brick: ))

 

Related Examples

Here are examples of the defMethod function at work.

Brick defmethod 025 Dictionary defMethod 006 Directory defMethod 007 Matrix defMethod 009
String defMethod 001 String defMethod 002 Symbol defMethod 003

 

Function Links

Here is the link to the current function used in this example.

defMethod

Here are a number of links to other related functions.

addMethod(#void) send(#void) methodsOf(#void)

 

Argument Types

Here are the links to the data types of the arguments used in this example.

Brick Symbol Dictionary

Here are a number of links to examples having similar argument types.

BitVector addMethod 023 BitVector defmethod 020 BitVector methodsOf 021 BitVector send 018
Boolean addMethod 011 Boolean addMethod 012 Boolean defmethod 012 Boolean methodsOf 012
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Brick compareEQ 019 Brick compareGT 019 Brick compareLE 019 Brick compareLT 019
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Brick isType 022 Brick length 017 Brick methodsOf 024 Brick new 015
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NumMatrix insert 009 NumMatrix methodsOf 024 NumMatrix send 027 NumVector addMethod 021
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ObjectRepository addMethod 026 ObjectRepository defmethod 023 ObjectRepository delete 013 ObjectRepository methodsOf 023
ObjectRepository send 026 Pair addMethod 024 Pair defmethod 021 Pair methodsOf 021
Pair send 019 PcodeVector methodsOf 020 ShortVector addMethod 021 ShortVector defmethod 019
ShortVector delete 011 ShortVector insert 007 ShortVector methodsOf 019 ShortVector send 017
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String isCharAlphabetic 001 String isCharAlphanumeric 001 String isCharLowercase 001 String isCharName 001
String isCharNumeric 001 String isCharUppercase 001 String isCharWhitespace 001 String isEqual 001
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Symbol setq 001 Symbol setq 002 Symbol sizeof 002 Symbol symbol 001
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Vector methodsOf 009 Vector send 006 Vector setAttributes 004 Vector setAttributes 005
Void addMethod 009 Void addMethod 010 Void defmethod 010 Void defmethod 011
Void methodsOf 011 Void send 009

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