[Gambas-user] Fixing bug tracker issue 78

[Bruce Bruen]

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
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