Looks like a bug caused by some internal optimizations. The string class is not properly handling the possibility that it might be subclasses.
Rick On Sat, Jun 22, 2019 at 2:08 PM Gil Barmwater <gbarmwa...@alum.rpi.edu> wrote: > I thought I understood how this is supposed to work but the following code > does not do what I expected: > > -- is this a bug? > say .addDot~new(123)~makestring "(should be 123.)" -- and it is > say .addDot~new(456) "(should be 456.)" > ::class addDot subclass String > ::method makestring return self~makestring:super || . > > The second say statement does not run the overriding makestring method but > gives "456 (should be 456.)".? What am I missing here? > > -- > Gil Barmwater > > _______________________________________________ > Oorexx-devel mailing list > Oorexx-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oorexx-devel >
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