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Re: Problem defining methods

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Subject: Re: Problem defining methods
From: Leif K-Brooks <eurleif at buyer-brokerage dot com>
Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2003 18:23:52 -0500
A function by the same name as a class would cause problems type-casting, however...

Eric Harris-Braun wrote:

On Friday, March 28, 2003, at 10:29 PM, Charles Yeomans wrote:

RB 5 won't let me add a function FolderItem() as FolderItem to a class. Surely this is a bug...


'Folderitem' is a reserved name, you can't use it for methods or properties and expect to be able to call them. In fact, its a bug that you can actually use reserved names for method/property names.


As I understand it, reserved words are reserved only because without doing so you can't figure out the syntax of the language. In all other cases you don't want to reserve words because it decreases the number of things you can say! So, the fact that you can create a property, local variable, or method that has the same name as a global function or some other name that also has a broader meaning in the language should not be a bug.

-Eric


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