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

[tobi]

On Sun, 17 Jun 2012, Benoît Minisini wrote:
> Le 17/06/2012 15:40, tobi a écrit :
> > On Sun, 17 Jun 2012, Benoît Minisini wrote:
> >> Le 17/06/2012 08:22, Bruce a écrit :
> >>> 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
> >>>
> >>
> >> You can't override Variant[] because '[' and ']' are not allowed in
> >> project file names.
> >>
> >> You can do that by creating the source file by hand, but you may have
> >> problems - This is the reason why it is forbidden. :-)
> >>
> >> I don't see what the real problem is with replacing all occurences of
> >> Variant[] by something like "MyTokenArray".
> >>
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> >> Benoît Minisini
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> > Wow, didn't know that. Is there any piece of documentation to quote when telling this someone?
> >
> > Regards,
> > Tobi
> >
> 
> Didn't know what?
> 
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That '[', ']' are not allowed in project file names. So the only reason for which I was able to
override Variant[] was because I didn't use the IDE?