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reply Carotinho <carotinobg yahoo.it> writes:
Hi!
Since I'm a newbie even in OOP, I have a question which I think is quite
general.
If I declare a list of BaseType, and then insert in it a DerivedType derived
from BaseType, when I need to access a member of DerivedType which I added,
is it this the right syntax

(cast(DerivedType)BaseType).NewMember;

I worked this out by myself and it works right, but I wonder if there is
some kind of problem using this syntax or what else.

BTW, not related to this question, but associative arrays are very cool, so
cool that I want to use them everywhere even when I don't need'em :)

Thanks!

Carotinho
Dec 07 2004
parent Sebastian Beschke <s.beschke gmx.de> writes:
Carotinho wrote:
 Hi!
 Since I'm a newbie even in OOP, I have a question which I think is quite
 general.
 If I declare a list of BaseType, and then insert in it a DerivedType derived
 from BaseType, when I need to access a member of DerivedType which I added,
 is it this the right syntax
 
 (cast(DerivedType)BaseType).NewMember;
Yep, that's it. :)
 
 I worked this out by myself and it works right, but I wonder if there is
 some kind of problem using this syntax or what else.
-Sebastian
Dec 08 2004