GameMonkey Script

Hello,

Currently, whenever a "type" (Such as vector3, player, etc) is declared to the GM VM, I take the type integer that's returned, and feed into a hashmap that returns my type information in the engine. This is also then "executed" in the VM as "global typename = typeid;".

I then create a function called "new", which takes this typeid. When it is called, it creates and returns an object, based upon the lookup of that typeid.

I was wondering if anyone has actually created new and delete operators, so instead of this:

pl = new(Player);

I could do

pl = new Player;

Thanks in advance!

I havn't tried, but it would be possible with a bit of work.

Why not just do

pl = Player();

or even:

pl = Player.New();

Just a quick comment on this...

Although the described work around is reasonable eg. pl = Player(); It still requires binding of a same named function to return the new instance. Since types could be created dynamically from script or native code, there is justification to implement something like operator new in future, as a standard way to create a new instance. (It happens to be in our design notes for a possible future version of GM.)