Introduction

So-o defines a functional layer which adds an object-oriented programming model to a structured programming language. Inspired by Smalltalk, result of a long practice of Objective C and different Lisp dialects, So-o is complete, simple and light, easy to understand.

Implementation

So-o has 3 functions: defclass which defines a new class, sendmsg which is systematically used to send a message to a class or an instance, and supersend which runs a method inherited from a superclass. Simply object-oriented!

So-o proposes a standard implementation in several languages. The code in PHP is less than a 1000 lines. The code in C is just about 1500 lines. The code in JavaScript is not even 700 lines.

Example

namespace Hello;

require_once 'So-o.php';

defclass('Hello', null, 1, null, null, null, array('hello'));

function i_hello($self) {
    echo 'Hello from So-o!', PHP_EOL;

    return $self;
}

Defines the Hello class which has one instance message: hello. The function i_hello implements the method.

$ php -a
php > require_once 'Hello.php';
php > $hello=sendmsg($Hello, 'new');
php > sendmsg($hello, 'hello');
Hello from So-o!

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Read the PHP manual

so-o-php.zip

Example

#include "So-o.h"

class Hello;

static instance i_hello(instance self) {
    printf( "Hello from So-o!\n" );

    return self;
}

void defclassHello() {
    selector _i_messages[] = {
        "hello",    METHOD(i_hello),
        0, 0
    };

    Hello = defclass("Hello", 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, _i_messages);
}

A simple main to illustrate how the Hello class is used:

#include "So-o.h"

#include <stdlib.h>

extern class Hello;

extern void defclassHello();

int main( int argc, char *argv[] ) {
    instance hello;

    defclassHello();

    hello = (instance)sendmsg(Hello, "new").p;

    sendmsg(hello, "hello");

    sendmsg(hello, "free");

    exit( 0 );
}
$ gcc -O -fstrength-reduce -finline-functions -fomit-frame-pointer -c test-Hello.c
$ gcc -O -fstrength-reduce -finline-functions -fomit-frame-pointer -c Hello.c
$ gcc test-Hello.o Hello.o libso-o.a -o test-Hello
$ test-Hello
Hello from So-o!

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so-o-c.zip

Example

import { defclass } from 'So-o';

defclass('Hello', null, 1,
    null,
    null,
    null,
    {   'hello':    (self) => {
                        console.log('Hello from So-o!');
                       
                        return self;
                    }
    }
);

A few lines of code to illustrate how the Hello class is used:

import { sendmsg } from 'So-o';

import 'Hello';

var hello = sendmsg(Hello, 'new');

sendmsg(hello, 'hello');
$ ln Hello.js node_modules/Hello.mjs
$ ln testHello.js testHello.mjs
$ nodejs --experimental-modules testHello
Hello from So-o!

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Read the JavaScript manual

so-o-js.zip