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Re: Scope/Protection Question

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Subject: Re: Scope/Protection Question
From: Metsis <listat@kotikone.fi>
Date: Sat, 30 May 2009 21:50:46 +0300
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Karen kirjoitti:
Is this a bug or is it just too late at night and I am tired and confused?

I received your message at (my) morning, and I think you're tired and confused. I may be wrong but I think that RB is a one-pass compiler without forward declarations [1], i.e. you can't refer to a subclass in a parent class, which is what you do in your

>
Sub Class1.aMethod(Parent as Class2)
  me.Property1 = Parent.Property1
End Sub
<

A totally different think is that the compiler's error message is... ehum, shall we say, less-than-accurate.

Metsis


[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forward_declaration

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