Object

Objectclass

systype.h[37], misc.t[1632], reflect.t[235]

Superclass
Tree Subclass
Tree Global
Objects Property
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Summary Property
Details Method
Details

The root object class. All objects descend from this class.

Modified in misc.t[1632]:
Add some methods to the base Object that make it *somewhat* interchangeable with lists and vectors. Certain operations that are normally specific to the collection types have obvious degenerations for the singleton case. In particular, a singleton can be thought of as a collection consisting of one value, so operations that iterate over a collection degenerate to one iteration on a singleton.

Modified in reflect.t[235]:
Modify the basic Object class to provide a to-symbol mapping

intrinsic class Object :

Superclass Tree (in declaration order)

Object

Subclass Tree

Object
BigNumber
ByteArray
CharacterSet
Collection
List
LookupTable
WeakRefLookupTable
Vector
AnonFuncPtr
Date
Dictionary
File
FileName
GrammarProd
HTTPRequest
HTTPServer
IntrinsicClass
Iterator
IndexedIterator
LookupTableIterator
RexPattern
String
StringComparator
TadsObject
TemporaryFile
TimeZone

Global Objects

(none)

Summary of Properties

(none)

Summary of Methods

callInherited createIterator createLiveIterator forEach getPropList getPropParams getSuperclassList isClass isTransient mapAll ofKind propDefined propInherited propType valToSymbol

Properties

(none)

Methods

callInherited (cl, prop, [args]) misc.t[1669]

Call an inherited method directly. This has the same effect that calling 'inherited cl.prop' would from within a method, but allows you to do this from an arbitrary point *outside* of the object's own code. I.e., you can say 'obj.callInherited(cl, &prop)' and get the effect that 'inherited c.prop' would have had from within an 'obj' method.

createIterator ( ) misc.t[1646]

create an iterator

createLiveIterator ( ) misc.t[1656]

create a live iterator (this allows 'foreach' to be used with an arbitrary object, iterating once over the loop with the object value)

forEach (func) misc.t[1640]

forEach on an object simply calls the function on the object

getPropList ( ) systype.h[60]

Get a list of my directly-defined properties. When called on intrinsic class objects, this returns a list of properties defined for instances of the class, as well as static properties of the class.

getPropParams (prop) systype.h[70]

get parameter list information for the given method - returns a list: [minimumArgc, optionalArgc, varargs], where minimumArgc is the minimum number of arguments, optionalArgc is the number of additional optional arguments, and varargs is true if the function takes a varying number of arguments greater than or equal to the minimum, nil if not.

getSuperclassList ( ) systype.h[46]

get the list of direct superclasses of this object

isClass ( ) systype.h[76]

determine if I'm a "class" object - returns true if the object was defined with the "class" keyword, nil otherwise

isTransient ( ) systype.h[87]

determine if this instance is transient

mapAll (func) misc.t[1634]

mapAll for an object simply applies a function to the object

ofKind (cls) systype.h[43]

Determine if I'm an instance or subclass of the given class 'cls'. Note that x.ofKind(x) returns true - an object is of its own kind.

propDefined (prop, flags?) systype.h[49]

determine if a property is defined or inherited by this object

propInherited (prop, origTargetObj, definingObj, flags?) systype.h[84]

Determine if a property is inherited further from the given object. definingObj is usually the value of the 'definingobj' pseudo-variable, and origTargetObj is usually the value of the 'targetobj' pseudo-variable.

propType (prop) systype.h[52]

get the type of a property defined for this object

valToSymbol ( ) reflect.t[236]

no description available

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