feat: implement class inheritance with 'is' keyword and superclass method copying

Add support for class inheritance in the compiler by parsing the 'is' keyword to load a superclass and emit a CODE_SUBCLASS instruction. In the VM, extend newClass to accept a superclass parameter, copy inherited methods from the superclass into the new class, and store the superclass pointer in the ObjClass struct. Introduce a root Object class in the core library and set it as the superclass for all built-in types. Add a test file verifying method inheritance and arity-based dispatch.
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Bob Nystrom
2013-11-13 19:05:03 +00:00
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class Foo {
methodOnFoo { io.write("foo") }
method(a) { io.write("foo") }
method(a, b, c) { io.write("foo") }
}
class Bar is Foo {
methodOnBar { io.write("bar") }
method(a, b) { io.write("bar") }
method(a, b, c, d) { io.write("bar") }
}
var bar = Bar.new
bar.methodOnFoo // expect: foo
bar.methodOnBar // expect: bar
// Methods with different arity do not shadow each other.
bar.method(1) // expect: foo
bar.method(1, 2) // expect: bar
bar.method(1, 2, 3) // expect: foo
bar.method(1, 2, 3, 4) // expect: bar
// TODO(bob): Overriding (or BETA-style refining?).
// TODO(bob): Private fields.
// TODO(bob): Super (or inner) calls.
// TODO(bob): Grammar for what expressions can follow "is".