[fpc-pascal]Polymorphism of class field

[Patrick O'Leary]

<snip lots of code and comment>
>You can't. You'll either have to typecast to the actual type, or provide
>abstract functions as SetDataFromReal() and SetDataFromString() in TStackElem
>which are implemented in the descendents, and which set the data, based on
>the actual type.

Ahh.  Yes, that works quite nicely.  Actually, what I'm going to do is 
similar, I'm just going to set up one SetData* function for each type in 
TStackElem as abstract, then implement just the appropriate function in 
each descendant type.  This keeps me from having multiple implementations 
of each SetData* function for each descendant.

>In TStackReal the SetDataFromString can do 2 things: Attempt to convert 
>the string
>to a real (which would be my choice), or raise an error saying that the 
>data type
>is not supported.

Yes, error handling...a good idea (and something I always seem to forget!)

>TStackCharString can do the opposite with SetDataFromReal.
>
>Michael.

Thank you for your very rapid response.



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