[Gambas-user] Fixing bug tracker issue 78

Bruce Bruen bbruen at ...2308...
Wed Aug 31 03:08:00 CEST 2011


On Wed, 2011-08-31 at 10:29 +0930, Bruce Bruen wrote:

> On Wed, 2011-08-31 at 01:56 +0200, Benoît Minisini wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > To finish fixing issue #78, in revision #4064, I have added a new check in the 
> > Gambas inheritance mechanism.
> > 
> > Now, a class method can override a method of a parent class only if they have 
> > the same signature.
> > 
> > The check is not done for the "_new" special method, as the inheritance of 
> > _new is special (see "inheritance and constructor" in the "Gambas object 
> > model" documentation on the wiki).
> > 
> > And the check is not done too for a native class inheriting another native 
> > class. C/C++ programmer are supposed to know what they are doing. :-)
> > 
> > Maybe you will get new "Badly overridden" errors in your projects now. Sorry 
> > for that!
> > 
> > Regards,
> > 
> 
> I am having a panic attack over this as I thought it had gone away. Does
> this mean that gambas 3 is now explicitly non-polymorphic?
> Bruce
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Sorry, I'm really panicky, I meant method overriding not polymorphism.
Bruce



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