Re: [fpc-pascal] Class reference doubt

2011-11-25 Thread Dimitri Smits
- Luiz Americo Pereira Camara luiz...@oi.com.br schreef: On 24/11/2011 19:34, Jonas Maebe wrote: In that case, you did not hit the same problem as the original poster (your I also hit this problem recently is what triggered my response). His problem was that if you call a non-virtual

Re: [fpc-pascal] Class reference doubt

2011-11-25 Thread Luiz Americo Pereira Camara
On 25/11/2011 07:50, Dimitri Smits wrote: so you have: type TMyObject=class(TObject) ... constructor Create; end; Yes TMyClass = class of TMyObject; //-- important I guess Not important or necessary. I was using TClass from RTL = class of TObject ... procedure

Re: [fpc-pascal] Class reference doubt

2011-11-24 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 2011-11-24 03:58, Luiz Americo Pereira Camara wrote: possible to get the expected behavior without forcing programmer to create a virtual constructor by using the new RTTI What has the new RTTI got to do with anything? Simply define TObj.Create as virtual, and TFoo.Create as overridden.

Re: [fpc-pascal] Class reference doubt

2011-11-24 Thread Jonas Maebe
On 24 Nov 2011, at 02:58, Luiz Americo Pereira Camara wrote: On 23/11/2011 18:48, Jesus Reyes wrote: in the following example The output is: cls class is TFoo TObj.create where I would expect: cls class is TFoo TObj.create TFoo.create I also hit this problem recently Found that this is

Re: [fpc-pascal] Class reference doubt

2011-11-24 Thread Luiz Americo Pereira Camara
On 24/11/2011 08:02, Jonas Maebe wrote: On 24 Nov 2011, at 02:58, Luiz Americo Pereira Camara wrote: On 23/11/2011 18:48, Jesus Reyes wrote: in the following example The output is: cls class is TFoo TObj.create where I would expect: cls class is TFoo TObj.create TFoo.create I also hit

Re: [fpc-pascal] Class reference doubt

2011-11-24 Thread Luiz Americo Pereira Camara
On 24/11/2011 05:47, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: On 2011-11-24 03:58, Luiz Americo Pereira Camara wrote: possible to get the expected behavior without forcing programmer to create a virtual constructor by using the new RTTI What has the new RTTI got to do with anything? Simply define TObj.Create

Re: [fpc-pascal] Class reference doubt

2011-11-24 Thread Jonas Maebe
On 24 Nov 2011, at 23:00, Luiz Americo Pereira Camara wrote: On 24/11/2011 08:02, Jonas Maebe wrote: On 24 Nov 2011, at 02:58, Luiz Americo Pereira Camara wrote: On 23/11/2011 18:48, Jesus Reyes wrote: where I would expect: cls class is TFoo TObj.create TFoo.create I also hit this

Re: [fpc-pascal] Class reference doubt

2011-11-24 Thread Luiz Americo Pereira Camara
On 24/11/2011 19:34, Jonas Maebe wrote: In that case, you did not hit the same problem as the original poster (your I also hit this problem recently is what triggered my response). His problem was that if you call a non-virtual constructor on a class reference variable, that the constructor is

Re: [fpc-pascal] Class reference doubt

2011-11-23 Thread Jonas Maebe
On 23 Nov 2011, at 22:48, Jesus Reyes wrote: in the following example The output is: cls class is TFoo TObj.create where I would expect: cls class is TFoo TObj.create TFoo.create ie the TFoo.constructor is not called, is this normal/expected? Yes. You have to use a virtual

Re: [fpc-pascal] Class reference doubt

2011-11-23 Thread Luiz Americo Pereira Camara
On 23/11/2011 18:48, Jesus Reyes wrote: in the following example The output is: cls class is TFoo TObj.create where I would expect: cls class is TFoo TObj.create TFoo.create I also hit this problem recently Found that this is one limitation of fpc. Under newer delphi it's possible to get