Impossible to extend native types?

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RepeatUntil

(Posted 2005) [#1]

I am surprised: it doesn't seem possible to extend BlitzMax type like String

Type StringExt Extends String
End Type

This does not compile!
What if I want to extend the String object to add some extra-functionnality to it?? That could be VERY useful!!

Is it really not possible? Whyyyy??

GW	(Posted 2005) [#2]

maybe its declared Final

Robert

(Posted 2005) [#3]

The code for the BlitzMAX string type is written in C, not BlitzMAX. Perhaps that is the problem.

Interestingly, quite a few other languages make the string type final.