[Laszlo-dev] For Review: Change 20080328-hqm-S Summary: check if override needed on method declarations in classes

[Donald Anderson]

On Mar 28, 2008, at 2:07 PM, Henry Minsky wrote:
>> Although in this case we're screwed because
>> it calls super.setY, so we really need to make this a singleton  
>> class...
>
> What's the rule?  Cannot call super methods when declaring an event  
> method, or what?
>
> Well, at the moment it would have to be that you cannot define a  
> method on an instance , which
> calls super.something, because it won't be compiled as a real class  
> method. it will just be a function
> closure which is sitting around as a property on the object.
>
> People expect this to work, which is why we're going to have to bite  
> the bullet and make tag compiler
> emit singleton class declarations for every instance that declares a  
> method which calls super().  And if we're
> not emitting a singleton class declaration, then we have to make  
> sure NOT to put the "override" keyword
> before the "function ..." expression,  because it is only allowed  
> when you're really defining a method of a class.
>


Got it, thanks.  Certainly sounds like one of the known restrictions  
for Monday's release.


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