Re: Constructors with multiple inheritance

[Julian Leyh <julian@vgai.de>]

On 30 Sep., 21:42, "Rego, P." <pvr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Because null cannot be dereferenced. If you want null allowed you have to
> > declare it as:
> >    function Construct (Object_Reference : access Parent_Class)
> >       return Parent_Class_Ptr;
> > or
> >    function Construct (Object_Reference : Parent_Class_Ptr)
> >       return Parent_Class_Ptr;
> > The first variant is a "method" of Parent_Class in the first argument. The
> > second variant is not.
>
> Maybe it's a good idea :-) . The first variant I guess could fit me very well, and I did not think about it before.

In this Case, you could turn it into a procedure with Object_Reference
being an out parameter:

    procedure Construct (Object_Reference : out Parent_Class_Ptr);

and then call it like you wanted:

    procedure Main is
       Obj : Parent_Class_Ptr;
    begin
       Obj.Construct;
    end Main;