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Originally Posted by nergal why do u need instance variables?

Cuz classes that's why

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Originally Posted by Headline Originally Posted by nergal why do u need instance variables? Cuz classes that's why

but...

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Originally Posted by abrandnewday but...

They're definitely not real classes.

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oh. well fuck.

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Originally Posted by abrandnewday oh. well fuck.

By classes I implied everything that's "standard" with them: instance vars, encapsulation, inheritance, polymorphism, etc.

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Originally Posted by Headline By classes I implied everything that's "standard" with them: instance vars, encapsulation, inheritance, polymorphism, etc.

what problem does having instance vars solve, especially in the case of sourcemod? the SM dev team isn't going to put their entire efforts into a language feature if it doesn't solve a practical problem.

everything else, the methodmaps can do as well. Methodmaps don't have Polymorphism but you can "overload" and override methods that have the same name, even when the methods are inherited.

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Originally Posted by nergal what problem does having instance vars solve, especially in the case of sourcemod? the SM dev team isn't going to put their entire efforts into a language feature if it doesn't solve a practical problem. everything else, the methodmaps can do as well. Methodmaps don't have Polymorphism but you can "overload" and override methods that have the same name, even when the methods are inherited.

It becomes really difficult to manage large amounts of data. Even struts would do fine here, I just love objects.

The methodmap system is OK, I think it's a great solution for modernizing our API for now

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Originally Posted by Headline It becomes really difficult to manage large amounts of data. Even struts would do fine here, I just love objects. The methodmap system is OK, I think it's a great solution for modernizing our API for now

use a stringmap/dictionary then if you want to handle large amounts of data.

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Originally Posted by Headline The methodmap system is OK, I think it's a great solution for modernizing our API for now

This x1000. I've actually pushed myself to learn to use StringMaps, ArrayLists, DataPacks as well as learning to use menus and panels more efficiently under new syntax via the methodmaps. Next up on my list is KeyValues which I am not looking forward to as I've never messed around with while and do before. But I really want to get into making config files for things, so I have to learn it.

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Originally Posted by nergal use a stringmap/dictionary then if you want to handle large amounts of data.

Yeah I probably will switch to that.