> On Wed, 2011-08-31 at 03:13 +0200, Benoît Minisini wrote: > > > Sorry, I'm really panicky, I meant method overriding not polymorphism. > > > Bruce > > > > This change only makes the interpreter raise an error instead of > > eventually segfaulting, by preventing something that is forbidden : > > changing the signature of a method through inheritance. > > > > That has nothing to do with virtual dispatching : the overridden method > > is always called. > > Oh no! I have dozens of gambas2 libraries that take advantage of this. > See attached project for a "model" of lots of what I have done. I don't > understand why it should be "forbidden"? Why would the interpreter > segfault? > Bruce
This is one the design rule of Gambas : a method has to always return the same datatype, otherwise it must return a Variant. That way, the interpreter can optimize its code at runtime. In your example, through inheritance, the same method may return a Variant[] or a String[] for example. If you have a real example, I may tell you how to do differently. Regards, -- Benoît Minisini ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Special Offer -- Download ArcSight Logger for FREE! Finally, a world-class log management solution at an even better price-free! And you'll get a free "Love Thy Logs" t-shirt when you download Logger. Secure your free ArcSight Logger TODAY! http://p.sf.net/sfu/arcsisghtdev2dev _______________________________________________ Gambas-user mailing list Gambas-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gambas-user
