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Preprocessor design issue

• Posted by Humberto <codehead78 at YAHOO.COM> Apr 09, 2001
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I hit a snag in the design of my preprocessor.  I
can't decide what to do in this situation:
sequence a
a = repeat(new foo(), 3)

a[3].method_such_and_such(45)

This would require all classes have their class type
stored internally and their methods called via
call_func(id).  I don't want to do this, I had planned
on keeping all class information out of the data
structures so that classes are just sequences with NO
overhead.

I would like to do the following:
a = repeat(new foo(), 3)
a[3].foo:method_such_and_such(45)

foo b = new foo()
b.method_such_and_such(45) 
--Don't need to specify a class

This way, the preprocessor could use the appropriate
method without extra code to call it.  
Is this a good solution?  Can other problems come up
by not storing the class type in the sequence?

Thanks for any feedback,
-Humberto