Arthur Fuller
artful at rogers.com
Mon May 12 08:28:01 CDT 2003
Not quite, JC. Overloading means that a single method name can have several signatures. The second through nth overload need not be in a child class. Any given class, for example, could have two or more Init() methods: one that takes no parameters, one that accepts say an int and a string, and a third that accepts an int, a string and a date. The rules of overloading are: you cannot have two methods with identical signatures. If you create a child method with the same name as a parent method, that calls the parent method either before or after running its own code, that is not overloading; that is extending. Arthur -----Original Message----- From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of John Colby Sent: May 12, 2003 8:52 AM To: accessd at databaseadvisors.com Subject: RE: [AccessD] Classes, Recordsets, and problems inbetween Gustav With true OO with inheritance, a function that is available in the parent class can be replaced in the child class so that whatever functionality the parent's function provided can be overriden. Overloading is a method of performing this processing in the class, but further allows the parameters passed in to the class to be replaced as well. For example FunctionA in one child class may accept an integer, in another it may accept a real. Since the parameters are different, the correct child class can automatically be selected by the runtime based on the type of data passed in. If I am passing in an integer I must be intending to use that specific child class, whereas if I pass in a float I must intend to use this other child. Since Access only has interface inheritance, it doesn't implement any of the OO stuff of more powerful languages (such as VB.Net), and all discussions of such capabilities is moot. John W. Colby www.colbyconsulting.com -----Original Message----- From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com]On Behalf Of Gustav Brock Sent: Monday, May 12, 2003 8:36 AM To: accessd at databaseadvisors.com Subject: Re: [AccessD] Classes, Recordsets, and problems inbetween Hi John > Overloading definitely is not supported in Access VBA. Just thinking logically: If that was the case it wouldn't be overloading? (Guess I'm showing that I have no idea of what overloading in VB is about). /gustav _______________________________________________ AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com _______________________________________________ AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com