On Sat, Jan 8, 2022 at 11:12 AM Duke Normandin <dukeofp...@gmx.com> wrote: > > On Sat, 8 Jan 2022 10:58:53 +1100 > Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote: > > [snip] > > > > "animal my_dog = animal(); ?? It seems to me that this should be > > > the cloning statement to create a particular object of the > > > animal class? > > > > This is the combination of the previous two lines: declaring > > my_dog and also constructing a dog. > > This was what confusing me. Makes sense now that I know the > statement is a combo of the two preceding ones - like declaring and > initialising a variable all one statement in some languages. > > [snip] > > Thanks for clearing that up. I also notice that class declarations > are called "programs" - not to be confused with the "main" program > to be executed. Is that a correct interpretation? If a class is > declared within a program, in Pike its a "program" within a > program? :?
(Redirecting back to the list.) It's a bit of history from LPC, and others would be better at explaining than I am, but my understanding is that it derives from the fact that your whole script is itself a class definition. In fact, you can actually clone a program by its file name - there's a standard way to cast a string to a program (or directly to an object), which loads the script from disk and parses it. object parsevdf = (object)"parsevdf.pike"; The file "parsevdf.pike" contains a program, by any definition of the word. According to Pike, it contains the definition of a class - which means that this class is a program. ChrisA
