From: "Anthony E. Glover" <aeg@hiwaay.net>
Subject: Re: How to?: Re-dispatching within an inherited method
Date: 1999/08/18
Date: 1999-08-18T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <37BB74A8.F35560F7@hiwaay.net> (raw)
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In my case, I am using pointers to objects; so, I actually have to
'use' all derived type packages and then make the procedure call
without full dot notation, such as:
use A;
use B;
...
...
Run_Widget( UnknownWidget.all );
Where UnknownWidget is a pointer to the class wide type.
Is there a better way of doing this? If I add a new
package with another derived type, then I have to go
add 'uses' to all packages that make calls to methods
of the class.
Tony
Matthew Heaney wrote:
>
> In article <7pcar9$aeg@hobbes.crc.com> , "David C. Hoos, Sr."
> <david.c.hoos.sr@ada95.com> wrote:
>
> > Without a class-wide Run_Widget, however, the call to
> > Run_Widget with an actual parameter of type BigWidget is
> > illegal -- a type conversion is required there.
> >
>
> Yes, but that's because you used expanded name notation:
>
> A.Run_Widget (The_BigWidget); -- illegal
>
> If you want to call the version of the operation that's primitive for
> BigWidget, then you have to name the correct operation:
>
> B.Run_Widget (The_BigWidget);
>
> No type conversion is required.
>
> >> With the change, you can say:
> >>
> >> B.Run_Widget (The_BigWidget);
> >>
> >> and all is well.
> --
> Matt
>
> It is impossible to feel great confidence in a negative theory which has
> always rested its main support on the weak points of its opponent.
>
> Joseph Needham, "A Mechanistic Criticism of Vitalism"
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Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-08-09 0:00 How to?: Re-dispatching within an inherited method Anthony E. Glover
1999-08-09 0:00 ` David C. Hoos, Sr.
1999-08-17 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-08-17 0:00 ` David C. Hoos, Sr.
1999-08-18 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-08-18 0:00 ` Anthony E. Glover [this message]
1999-08-19 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-08-21 0:00 ` Anthony E. Glover
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