[fpc-pascal] override and virtual: was SetFileTime
Steve Litt
slitt at troubleshooters.com
Thu May 4 03:04:15 CEST 2023
Giuliano Colla via fpc-pascal said on Wed, 3 May 2023 19:33:25 +0200
>
> Override: When you're dealing with objects, you have the
> inheritance, that is you may derive a new class (the template of an
> object) from an existing class and the newly created class inherits
> all the methods and properties of the parent class. In this case
> TTouchJunction is declared as a descendant of TCustomApplication,
> therefore it inherits all the methods and properties. If you need
> that your object does something different from the methods of its
> parent, but keep the same name, you must declare that your
> declaration overrides the ancestors one. If in the body of your new
> method if you want to execute also the ancestor method you may call
> it with the keyword "inherited".
>
> *
>
> Virtual: means that this method can be overridden by a descendant
> class. The same does the keyword Dynamic. The difference has to do
> with the way the code is allocated in memory. Virtual is optimized
> for speed, Dynamic for memory.
>
>Hope that it helps.
Thanks Giuliano, it helps a lot. I'm familiar with the concepts you
mentioned from work with Perl, Python and C++, and it's good to know
how they're implemented in FPC.
Thanks,
SteveT
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