Re: [fpc-pascal] Java equivalent of Pascal's class reference functionality

2016-06-08 Thread Jonas Maebe
> On 09 Jun 2016, at 02:36, Graeme Geldenhuys > wrote: > >> On 2016-06-09 00:46, Maciej Izak wrote: >> ± yes, it is called Class and you need no-arg constructor for that: > > Thank you very much Maciej. I couldn't get your code to work. Please take this thread, and future similar ones, to the

Re: [fpc-pascal] Java equivalent of Pascal's class reference functionality

2016-06-08 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 2016-06-09 00:46, Maciej Izak wrote: > ± yes, it is called Class and you need no-arg constructor for that: Thank you very much Maciej. I couldn't get your code to work. Eclipse (thus Java Compiler) insisted that I replace Class with Class which completely defeats the exercise - the whole point

Re: [fpc-pascal] Java equivalent of Pascal's class reference functionality

2016-06-08 Thread Maciej Izak
2016-06-09 1:17 GMT+02:00 Graeme Geldenhuys : > Does Java have an equivalent feature of a Object Pascal language's Class > Reference. > +/- yes, it is called Class and you need no-arg constructor for that: https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/lang/Class.html public void executeVisitor

Re: [fpc-pascal] Java equivalent of Pascal's class reference functionality

2016-06-08 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 2016-06-09 00:23, Ryan Gonzalez wrote: > Not sure about your question exactly, but everything in Java is passed by > reference Not quite what I meant. :) The Object Pascal feature is that my example code - ExecuteVisitor() - doesn't know at compile time what instance (any descendant of TVisito

Re: [fpc-pascal] Java equivalent of Pascal's class reference functionality

2016-06-08 Thread Ryan Gonzalez
Not sure about your question exactly, but everything in Java is passed by reference, and all objects are covariant, so you shouldn't need to do anything. On Wed, Jun 8, 2016 at 6:17 PM, Graeme Geldenhuys < mailingli...@geldenhuys.co.uk> wrote: > Hi, > > I know this is not a Java forum, but though

[fpc-pascal] Java equivalent of Pascal's class reference functionality

2016-06-08 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Hi, I know this is not a Java forum, but thought maybe somebody here with Object Pascal and Java knowledge could help (seeing that Java-only developers might not know what I'm talking about). Does Java have an equivalent feature of a Object Pascal language's Class Reference. For Example: I want