There's currently no way to call a superclass' method. I've just run
into this and leo suggested I sent a note to the list.
Here's what I want to do:
I have a ParrotClass (a class defined in PIR) that is derived from the
String class. I want to override it's set_string_native method to do
some processing before I store the value. My first attempt was this:
.sub __set_string_native method
.param string value
self = value
print "assign\n"
.end
Of course, that doesn't work: `self = value` just calls the method
again and you quickly hit the recursion limit. While I probably won't
be able to use the = syntax, I should be able to call the parent's
method (since I can't actually set the string value myself like I can
in PMC-land).
Something like this ought to work:
.sub __set_string_native method
.param string value
self.SUPER::__set_string_native(value)
print "assign\n"
.end
I don't really care how it looks really, as long as it's possible. Any
thoughts? It'd be nice to get this specced so that it can be
implemented.
Thanks.
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