[Gambas-user] How do I override an Array class?

[tobi]

On Sun, 17 Jun 2012, Bruce wrote:
> I would like to override the Variant[] class to extend it with a small
> set of special interest methods.
> 
> The gambas IDE complains when I try to call my class "Variant[]".
> 
> I cannot find anything in the help that seems to preclude this, apart
> from the class naming rules.
> 
> Is this possible?
> 
> 
> (More detail:  I am trying to restructure a large parsing project that
> works with hundreds of arrays of tokens, there is a huge amount of
> redundant code in it that repeats the same operations on the array.
> What I first tried doing was creating a class that inherits Variant[]
> and adds a few of the required methods, called "MyVariant". Then going
> through the parser project and replacing each As Variant[] with As
> MyVariant.  This has raised a problem (of my own making!) where the
> classes in the parser inherit others in the project, I need to change
> the declarations in each inheritance chain in a single step.  This makes
> it fairly difficult to isolate each use of the redundant code and change
> it to use the standardised code in MyVariant.
> So, I figured that if I could just override the Variant[] class then I
> could work on one of the parser classes at a time, clean it up and move
> on and not be bugged by the continual compile/fix/compile/fix cycles I
> am causing while not even getting far with the real goal.)
> 
> Bruce
> 
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I have done overriding Variant[] successfully (extended it by a specific Sort() method) but it
caused an interpreter complaint (I do not use the IDE) until (excluding) rev #4715 so it would be
interesting what message you get and what revision you use... (and maybe what the critical code
looks like)

Regards,
Tobi