Cool - thanks!

Slava Pestov wrote:
> Hi Phil,
> 
> Factor does not support inheritance so you cannot inherit from byte- 
> array. The approach you outlined is the right way to do it.
> 
> Are you aware of the ulong-nth and set-ulong-nth words in the alien.c- 
> types vocabulary, which read/write ulongs from a byte array unsafely?  
> You need to wrap those in the sequence protocol (with bounds  
> checking, etc.)
> 
> Slava
> 
> On 5-Nov-07, at 10:54 AM, Phil Dawes wrote:
> 
>> Hi Factor Team,
>>
>> I'd like to create a class 'ulong-array' which has a byte-array as its
>> underlying storage, but overloads length, nth etc.. so that a 32bit
>> binary array can be used in sequence functions like sort.
>>
>> I can see how to do this as a tuple with one slot containing the
>> byte-array (and then making this an instance of sequence), but is it
>> possible to just inherit from the byte-array itself and overload the
>> methods?
>>
>> Many thanks,
>>
>> Phil
>>


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