Objects or structures.

NEW MEME GUYZ LOLCAT

   BTW MEMBERS
   I HAS A CAT!PIC
   I HAS A CAPTION

   BTW CONSTRUCTOR
   FORCED MEME LOLCAT WITH HEAD ALSO SHOE LOL
   HAI
      CAT!PIC IZ HEAD
      CAPTION IZ SHOE
      PUT CAPTION ON CAT!PIC
   KTHXBYE

   BTW DEFAULT CONSTRUCTOR
   FORCED MEME LOLCAT
   HAI
      ME WITH CEILING!CAT ALSO "Ceiling cat is watching you masturbate" LOL
   KTHXBYE

   BTW OBSERVERS
   SO IM LIKE PICTUREGET
   HAI
      I FOUND TEH CAT!PIC
   KTHXBYE

   SO IM LIKE FUNNYTEXTGET
   HAI
      I FOUND TEH CAPTION
   KTHXBYE

   BTW MUTATORS
   SO IM LIKE NEWTEXTPLZ WITH FUNNYTEXT
   HAI
      CAPTION IZ FUNNYTEXT
   KTHXBYE

   SO IM LIKE MOARTEXTPLZ WITH FUNNYTEXT
   HAI
      CAPTION IZ CAPTION N FUNNYTEXT
   KTHXBYE

   SO IM LIKE GIMME!ROFFLES
   HAI
      BTW THIS DISPLAYS THE FUNNY PIC WITH OMGTEXT!
   KTHXBYE
KTHXBYE

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OMG, That's TEH AWESOME!!1! That reads so sweetly! — Risser, 2007/05/29 18:35

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So how do we use the new meme? Perhaps:

BTW Using the default constructor

I HAS A BLAHLOLCAT ITZ A LOLCAT

BTW Using the constructor

I HAS A GR8LOLCAT ITZ A LOLCAT WITH MYCATPIC ALSO "I CAN HAZ CODING?"

BTW Accessing functions

I HAS A STOLENPIC IZ PICTUREGET DA GR8LOLCAT

NEWTEXTPLZ DA BLAHLOLCAT WITH "ZZZZ"

I'm not sure what to do for accessing members. “DA” works great for verbs, but not nouns.

— Isaac, 2007/05/30 16:48

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I nominate some form of “HAS (A) FLAVOR” for OOPy construction. It sort of matches the OO idea, and one of the first OO systems for LISP was called 'FLAVORS', which is a nifty historical nod.

My mastery of lolcat is such that I feel confident in offering a syntax just now.

— wm, 2007/05/30 17:06

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So, new ideas from downtime yesterday.

Optional syntax for observers that take either no arguments or one integer literal:

IM SO [object name] I SHIT (THE) [field name]

where the “THE” is optional for smoothness of reading. For example,

NEW MEME GUYZ MONARCHY
   I HAS A KING
   I HAS A QUEEN

   FORCED MEME MONARCHY
   HAI
      BTW TEXT GOES HERE
   KTHXBYE
END MEME

Therefore,

I HAS A BRITISH
I HAS A TRUTH
BRITISH IZ FORCED MEME MONARCHY
TRUTH IZ IM SO BRITISH I SHIT THE QUEEN

This also addresses the possibility of needing a command to access members.

Since LOLCODE thus far has been loosely/dynamically typed, I'm inclined to simply allow an object to be of the class that it uses the constructor for. For example, as above, BRITISH is a variable that happens to be assigned the product of a MONARCHY constructor, much as we need not declare for

I HAS A BUKKIT
BUKKIT IZ "OMG! STOLEN!"

As for calling methods, I'm thinking of

I HAS A CEILINGCAT
CEILINGCAT IZ FORCED MEME LOLCAT
BTW HA! HA! IM USIN UR DEFAULT CONSTRUCTOR

IM IN UR CEILINGCAT, MAKIN U GIMME!ROFFLES
BTW DISPLAYS THE CEILINGCAT FUNNIES

IM IN UR CEILINGCAT, MAKIN U NEWTEXTPLZ UR "Where is your god now?" LOL
BTW IM CALLIN UR METHOD WITH ONE ARGUMENT, LOL

As before, additional arguments can be appended by using “ALSO <argument>”. I've also been using “LOL” as a delimiter for the end of a list of items (usually in a function call), as in the two-argument constructor for LOLCAT.

Should static methods be “SO ITZ LIKE…” instead of “SO IM LIKE”?

— Tammi C., 2007/05/30 17:38

For storing objects in variables, I have proposed to use ITZA or IZA (as in, “it is a” or “is a”)

I HAS A ceilingcat ITZA lolcat
I HAZ A monorailcat
monorailcat IZA lolcat

This would also call the constructor.

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I still like

I HAS A [<class/type> CALLED] <varname> [AN]ITZ <value>[ ALSO/WITH/AN[D] ]

for initializer statements, with

LOL <variable>['S <member>] R <value>

for assignment. For the former, if no type is specified, the interpreter or compiler will either choose type NUMBAR or YARN (string) automatically. I still propose that the language be strongly typed, with the following for casting:

... <type>!AZA!<type> ...

and no implicit casting. — Kyle, 2007/05/30 18:47

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Has anyone considered using DOOD for 'class'?

DOOD CAR
I HAS A VAR DOORS
KTHX

DOOD CORVETTE SO IM LIKE CAR
VAR DOORS IZ 2
KTHX

DOOD CADILLAC SO IM LIKE CAR
VAR DOORS IZ 4
KTHX

-scoyote, 2007/05/30 19:08

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For deallocation of these objects (if dynamic memory allocation is used), I'll propose using “IZ NOT A MEME”. Building off of Tammi C.'s code from above:

I HAS A CEILINGCAT
CEILINGCAT IZ FORCED MEME LOLCAT
BTW HA! HA! IM USIN UR DEFAULT CONSTRUCTOR

IM IN UR CEILINGCAT, MAKIN U GIMME!ROFFLES
BTW DISPLAYS THE CEILINGCAT FUNNIES

BTW DELEETIN UR OBJECT AMIRITE
CEILINGCAT IZ NOT A MEME

-belx, 2007/05/30 21:24

Just suggested that NOOB could be used instead of new

— Spikeline, 2007/06/02 22:46

Deallocation? Let's keep lolcode simple and hide memory troubles from the programmer (Java-like).

— Nicolas, 2007/06/05 22:12