[chuck-users] Question on Class and Inheritance

7 Feb 2006

      /*
	This one was a doozey... it took me about 2 hours to figure out this one,
	as I had rewritten some code, not thinking this could be the trouble...

	Anyway, it would appear Chuck doesn't differentiate between floats and
	arrays of floats when finding the proper function to call. I would think that
	this code would produce an output with a call to the B1, but when run,
	it actually calls the E1.

	Does ChucK treat floats and arrays of float the same when making this function
	determination? Well, yes it does, but should it?

	I would think, that if object oriented is a goal, then floats and
arrays of floats
	would be treated differently.
*/
class B1 {
	fun void f(float f[]) {
		<<< "in B1.f", "" >>>;
	}
}

class E1 extends B1 {
	fun void f(float x, float y, float z) {
		<<< "in E1.f", "" >>>;
	}
}

class B2 {
	fun void f(float x, float y, float z) {
		<<< "in B2.f", "" >>>;
	}
}

class E2 extends B2 {
	fun void f(float f[]) {
		<<< "in E2.f", "" >>>;
	}
}

B1 b1;
B2 b2;
E1 e1;
E2 e2;

[ 0.1, 0.3, 0.7 ] @=> float myArray[];

b1.f(myArray);          // in B1.f - correct
e1.f(myArray);          // in E1.f - wrong - should this actually call
B1.f(myArray)
e1.f(0.7, .553, 77);    // in E1.f - correct
b2.f(0.7, .553, 77);    // in B2.f - correct
e2.f(0.7, .553, 77);    // in E2.f - wrong - should this actually call
B2.f(0.7, .553, 77)
e2.f(myArray);          // in E2.f - correct

//*******

The following Java program illustrates what I was thinking should
happen. Will ChucK follow what Java is doing?

class Base1 {
	public String f(double x[]) {
		return "Base1";
	}
}

class Ext1 extends Base1 {
	public String f(double x, double y) {
		return "Ext1";
	}
}

class Base2 {
	public String f(double x, double y) {
		return "Base2";
	}
}

class Ext2 extends Base2 {
	public String f(double x[]) {
		return "Ext2";
	}
}

public class doit {
	public static void main(String[] args) {
		Base1 b1 = new Base1();
		Ext1 e1 = new Ext1();
		Base2 b2 = new Base2();
		Ext2 e2 = new Ext2();

		double myArray[] = { 0.7, .533, 75 };

		System.out.println("b1: " + b1.f(myArray));   // b1: Base1
		System.out.println("e1: " + e1.f(myArray));   // e1: Base1
		System.out.println("e1: " + e1.f(0, 1));      // e1: Ext1
		System.out.println("b2: " + b2.f(0, 1));      // b2: Base2
		System.out.println("e2: " + e2.f(0, 1));      // e2: Base2
		System.out.println("e2: " + e2.f(myArray));   // e2: Ext2

	}
}

Thanks, Mike

[chuck-users] Question on Class and Inheritance

Mike McGonagle