Re: VB6, VB2005, or Something Else?

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Bob Butler wrote:
"Andre Kaufmann" <andre.kaufmann.bei@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Michael B. Johnson wrote:
On Tue, 11 Apr 2006 13:12:31 -0500, Paul Clement
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object oriented. You mean to say they *couldn't* have implemented
polymorphism in the existing language? Why not?

Procedure Overloading? Why not?
They could have done this. But this would have IMHO broken
compatibility with older VB code too. COM doesn't support all that
features. If you would enhance the COM model to support all that
features, older languages/COM objects couldn't use them properly.

Nobody is talking about enhancing COM or maintaining COM compatibility. The
need is to maintain VB source code compatibility. Adding keywords in VB7 to
support procedure overloading would have had zero effect on existing VB 6
code being brought forward that didn't use it.

Yes, but that would restrict the C++ applications and other languages using the COM objects to the old model.

Regarding "only" VB I agree - would be possible.

Andre
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