[Gambas-user] Inheriting, wrapping and casting

[Fabien Bodard]

You will have to wait alf a week to get Benoit's answer :-).

It's an old limitation, but i remember when it was not.

2014-04-19 7:12 GMT+02:00 Bruno Félix Rezende Ribeiro <oitofelix at ...3322...1...>:
> Em Sat, 19 Apr 2014 01:07:21 +0200
> Tobias Boege <taboege at ...626...> escreveu:
>
>> Oh, I forgot to ask: do you want the patch that allows inheritance-
>> compatible[*] classes to be used in place of a class in method and
>> property signatures to test the above approach - even if it's
>> unlikely that it goes mainline?
>
> Sure!  Reading [1] and [2], it seems that the main technical reason
> Gambas doesn't support overriding signatures within inherited classes
> is an optimization.  IMHO, the only way to justify such a restriction on
> functionality is if the table symbol lookup were impracticably slow.
> I'm usually much more concerned about powerfulness than speed.  I
> think one language like Gambas should have its generality and
> expressiveness maximized to the extent that its execution speed stays
> reasonable.  I really like the "freedom" of choosing how to
> structure my code.  The idea that the interpreter is passive about my
> natural and intuitive programming creative process, as long it's still
> logically consistent, is priceless.  Paraphrasing "The GNU Coding
> Standards"[3]:
>
>   The interpreter should be your servant, not your master.
>
>
> Thank you very much for your efforts coding on the interpreter.
>
>
> Footnotes:
>
> [1] http://sourceforge.net/p/gambas/mailman/message/30783547/
> [2] http://code.google.com/p/gambas/issues/detail?id=78
> [3] http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/index.html
>
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