[IronPython] constructor inheritance not working

[Paolo Molaro]

On 08/24/04 Edd Dumbill wrote:
> public class TestCtor {
> 	public int Val;
> 
> 	public TestCtor (int val)
> 	{
> 		Val = val;
> 	}
> 
> 	public TestCtor () : this (5)
> 	{
> 	}
> }
> 
> When the second constructor is called from IronPython, the inherited
> constructor isn't being called, and so Val remains uninitialised.  This
> ctor use is quite a common pattern in Gtk#, which is where I first
> encountered the issue.

As mentioned in another post, it looks like IronPython doesn't select
the best method to invoke, in particular, if it finds a method with more
args first, it will happily call that supplying default arguments for
the missing params. At least this is what it seems from a quick lokk at
the code. So the issue is not that mono doesn't call the inherited ctor,
but that the base ctor is called directly by IronPython.
If you invert the two TestCtor constructors in the source and recompile,
the test runs fine in mono (would be interesting to know if it will work
on the MS runtime, for some reason it hangs for me when running this
sample, so I can't test it myself). There is still a minute chance this
is due to some different behaviour in reflection between mono and MS,
haven't investigated further.

lupus

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