[Gambas-user] #11 and a bug in the editor

[Benoit Minisini]

On Sunday 06 August 2006 07:49, mike-nought at ...17... wrote:
> Hi Benoit, hi all.
>
> I am currently writing a quite large project (an ID3-Tagger) with the
> development version and discovered Gambas not to behave as it should at two
> points. Here is the function I wanted to use for merging several objects
> (of the same type), keeping those values which are same and resetting all
> others:
>
> PUBLIC FUNCTION merge(values AS Object[]) AS Object
>
>   DIM o AS Object
>   DIM i AS Variant
>   DIM x AS Boolean
>   DIM result AS Object
>   DIM t AS String
>   DIM v1 AS Variant
>   DIM v2 AS Variant
>
>   IF values.Count = 0 THEN RETURN NULL
>   t = Object.Type(values[0])
>
>   ' (1) this SELECT CASE should be replacable with result=New(t)
>   SELECT CASE t
>     CASE "CMPEGHeader"
>       result = NEW CMPEGHeader
>     CASE "CTag"
>       result = NEW CTag
>     CASE "CTagv1"
>       result = NEW CTagv1
>     CASE "CTagv2"
>       result = NEW CTagv2
>   END SELECT
>
>   FOR EACH i IN Classes[t].Symbols
>     FOR EACH o IN values
>       IF NOT x THEN
>         TRY Object.SetProperty(result, i, Object.GetProperty(o, i))
>         x = TRUE
>       ELSE
>         v1 = NULL
>         v2 = NULL
>         TRY v1 = Object.GetProperty(result, i)
>         TRY v2 = Object.GetProperty(o, i)
>         IF NOT (v1 = v2) THEN
>           TRY Object.SetProperty(result, i, "")
>         END IF
>       END IF
>     NEXT ' (2) interpreter jumps here after RETURN
>     x = FALSE
>   NEXT
>
>   RETURN result
>
> END
>
> I marked the location of both bugs(?) with (1) and (2).
>
> (1): Here a new instance of the type of the passed objects should be
> created, which was formerly possible through result=New(t) in this case.
> But now this doesn't work anymore, because the editor replaces New([...])
> with NEW ([...]) which I cannot use here.
>

I get it :-) This is not a bug, just the way the editor rewrites your code. 
But it works!

The rule is that if there are brackets after NEW or New (Gambas language is 
not case sensitive), then the class name is dynamic. Otherwise it is static.

Regards,

-- 
Benoit Minisini