On Thursday, March 20, 2003, at 09:43 AM, Joseph J. Strout wrote:
At 12:10 PM -0500 3/20/03, Charles Yeomans wrote:
I don't believe that Variant is a subclass of Object.
What, you think I'm making this stuff up? :) I'm telling you that it
is.
What, you mean you aren't making it all up? Dang, now I owe Will 5
bucks. :)
It is in fact correctly documented to be a sub of Object, though it is
a little confusing as it isn't listed under classes (with most of the
other objects) but under "Data Types" instead. There it is called a
"Special Data Type", rather than an "Intrinsic Data Type" like everyone
else listed there. It is also the only object other than Date that is
in that list. It might make sense to just move variant and date up
under classes. I'm not really sure how either of these objects are more
"data types" than the other objects. Of course, variants are further
confusing in that they are the only object you don't create with "new"
or some other explicit creation routine.
--Brady
The La Jolla Underground
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