On 2009-12-17 01:57:50 -0500, Pelle Månsson <pelle.mans...@gmail.com> said:

On 12/17/2009 01:05 AM, Michel Fortin wrote:
Object? func(Object? o) {
writeln(o.toString());
return o;
}

MyObject o = func(new MyObject);

Here, "Object?" means Object or a derived type.

You know, just Object means Object or a derived type. That's what inheritance is.

The idea is to be able to say in the function signature that the same type is returned, avoiding a cast that would be unnecessary otherwise. It's the same principle as for "const?", or "inout".

But you're right that my definition isn't very good.

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Michel Fortin
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