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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ Gambas-user mailing list Gambas-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gambas-user
