[chuck-users] is 'string' a primitive type?

[Robin Haberkorn]

Hi!

If I recall correctly, this was indeed a bug in ChucK's codebase, but it's been
a while since I looked at it.

As a workaround you may do the following:

public class A
{
    static string @a[];
}
["Hello world"] @=> A.a;

Then you should be able to access the string as A.a[0] since member "a" will
be an array reference (which is not considered primitive).
I've used such static string arrays in my code.

Also wrapping the string in a class (or even deriving from string?) may work.

Best regards,
Robin


2013/10/22 Kiran O.V. <kiranov1986 at gmail.com>:
> Hi
>
> When I click 'add shred' with the following code:
>
> public class A
> {
>     static string a;
> }
>
> it throws following message:
>
> [*unnamed1]:line(3): cannot declare static non-primitive objects (yet)...
> [*unnamed1]:line(3): ...(hint: declare as ref (@) & initialize outside for
> now)
>
> as if string is non-primitive.
>
> And when I follow the suggestion and use a ref
>
> public class A
> {
>     static string @ a;
> }
>
> it throws the following message:
>
> [*unnamed1]:line(3): cannot declare references (@) of primitive type
> 'string'...
> [*unnamed1]:line(3): ...(primitive types: 'int', 'float', 'time', 'dur')
>
> as if string is a primitive type.
>
> Is it a code limitation or am I doing something wrong?
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> Kiran
>
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