Hi Thomas,
I'm not very familiar with VB6 but understand it to be a dynamically
typed language.
Don't dynamically typed languages sort of give you polymorphism on
everything for free?
In C# I would have an Animal class that has the Eat() method and use
polymorphism to treat my Cat or Dog objects as Animals so that some
function wouldn't need to be written twice to handle dogs and cats
separately.
But that's free in dynamically typed languages like javascript that
don't check the type of the object for most tasks such as calling a
method or getting a member variable.
Javascript and Lua are actually using associative arrays for all their
complex objects which is perhaps a bit different.
But I believe it to be the same in Python and Ruby which let you define
actual classes.
Does VB6 let you define classes like Python and Ruby?
Or associative arrays like javascript and lua?
Thanks,
Ian Reed
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On 8/9/2013 8:30 PM, Thomas Ward wrote:
hi Ken,
Yeah, you got that right. I love the flexibility of inheritance, but
that isn't the only thing about object oriented programming you are
missing in VB 6. Polymorphism is another aspect of object oriented
programming that doesn't seem that big a deal until you realize all
the things you can do with it. I really think you should try your hand
at VB .NET or C# .NET one of these days.
Cheers!
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