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From: daven@svc.portal.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Methods overriding global functions
Keywords: object pascal
Message-ID: <1990Dec31.043319.26383@svc.portal.com>
Date: 31 Dec 90 04:33:19 GMT
References: <1990Dec30.044453.29640@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Organization: Software Ventures
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In article <1990Dec30.044453.29640@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> ml27192@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (lanett mark) writes:
>I'm writing a program using MacApp that for various reasons uses the generic
>pascal i/o routines like open/close. When I try to call close from a method
>of a TDocument class the compiler flags an error. The problem is that TDoc
>_already_ has a method called close, with no arguments, and the compiler is
>trying to use that one instead of the generic close. I am not using Self, 
>either.

I can't think of any "slight of hand" that will make the Pascal compilier do
what you want without forcing something to change it's name.

Using a global routine that calls Close would be the easiest thing to do.
I serious believe the MacApp team assumed that most people would be calling
the Mac's FSClose routine instead of the Pacal I/O Close routine.

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