The term Objectionary was coined by David West in his great book Object Thinking. The original idea was to have a place where objects are hosted. Not libraries or software packages, but individual objects. This is exactly what this repository is about: it hosts EOLANG objects. More details in this blog post.
When you are ready to publish a new object to this repository
and make it visible for users of EOLANG, you just create a new
.eo file and place it to the right location, in one of the sub-directories
inside the objects directory.
Then, you add tests also written in EOLANG, and place them next
to your file in a subdirectory named after your object.
For example:
objects/
org/
eolang/
bool.eo
tests/
org/
eolang/
bool-tests.eo
Then, you add a meta to your object code, mentioning the location of the runtime package, where all necessary atoms are available. For example, you create a new random numbers generator:
+package org.example
+rt jvm org.example:example-runtime:1.0
[] > random
[max] > next-int
as-int.
mul.
max
^
[] > @ /float
The meta +rt clearly points us to the place where a JAR with
the class for random.@ atom can be found.
When ready, submit us a pull request. Our scripts will try to build and test all objects, together with your new one, to make sure you didn't break anything and your objects work together with your atoms. Then, we'll merge it and the repository will be updated. All users will be able to use your objects.