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stzSelfDoc

16 own methods · 0 forms written with extensions, listed under their method

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Under each method, its extensions (Q CS XT Z ZZ IB W U): bold and ticked, it exists; struck, it does not. The extensions and what they mean

Examples: 2 come from the library's tests; 4 were composed from each method's signature and run for this page, on a fresh object, for example o1 = new stzSelfDoc("stzListOfStrings"). 10 methods have none yet. Examples run on 2026-10-03 12:54 inside the library at commit 0e72e2e2c.

Method

Explanation, as the source carries it

init

(no comment in the source: the name reads as a sentence) initno extension

ClassName

introspection

composed example

o1 = new stzSelfDoc("stzListOfStrings")
? o1.ClassName()
#--> stzListOfStrings

composed from the signature, run for this page

no extension

Source

introspection

composed example

o1 = new stzSelfDoc("stzListOfStrings")
? o1.Source()
#--> D:/GitHub/_wts/libraries/stzlib/base/string/stzStringList.ring

composed from the signature, run for this page

no extension

NumberOfMethods

introspection

composed example

o1 = new stzSelfDoc("stzListOfStrings")
? o1.NumberOfMethods()
#--> 171

composed from the signature, run for this page

no extension

MethodNames

introspectionno extension

HasMethod

introspection 1 examples run

oDoc = StzSelfDocQ("stzList")
? oDoc.HowTo("remove duplicates")
? oDoc.HasMethod("DuplicatesRemoved")
#--> Q([...]).RemoveDuplicates()   -- composed by grammar (remove duplicates)
#--> 1

library testno extension

DescriptionOf

introspectionno extension

DefiningClassOf

The class that actually DEFINES pcName (this class or an ancestor it inherits from). "" if the method is unknown.no extension

NumberOfInheritedMethods

How many of the harvested methods are inherited (defined by an ancestor).

composed example

o1 = new stzSelfDoc("stzListOfStrings")
? o1.NumberOfInheritedMethods()
#--> 171

composed from the signature, run for this page

no extension

ExplainMethod

ExplainMethod(name) -- a plain-language explanation of one method (DATA, a string): its name + doc-comment (or a name-derived phrase if undocumented).no extension

Show

explain (deterministic, templated -- no model)no extension

Ask

Ask(question) -- the methods whose MEANING best matches a plain-English question, as [ [name, score, description], ... ] best first (DATA). Uses the loaded embedding model (2c) when present, else lexical similarity -- so it works with zero setup and sharpens with a model. The natural- programming entry: describe what you want, get the operation.no extension

AskFor

ask (semantic -- embeddings/reranker or lexical)no extension

BestMethodFor

The single best-matching method name for a question (DATA, a string).no extension

HowTo

HowTo(intent) -- resolve a plain-English intent to a runnable method call on this class, DETERMINISTICALLY (no LLM). Two engines, unified: (1) the GRAMMAR composes a method name from the intent and grounds it against this class's real API; if the class implements it, that is the answer (highest confidence, it is derived not guessed). (2) Otherwise fall back to semantic RETRIEVAL (the ranker: reranker/embeddings/lexical). Returns a human line: the call template + how it was resolved + the name's grammatical gloss. 1 examples run

oDoc = StzSelfDocQ("stzList")
? oDoc.HowTo("remove duplicates")
? oDoc.HasMethod("DuplicatesRemoved")
#--> Q([...]).RemoveDuplicates()   -- composed by grammar (remove duplicates)
#--> 1

library testno extension

MethodForIntent

The resolved method NAME only (DATA), grammar-first then retrieval.no extension