Figuring out what class a variable is

[smool]

What is it you are trying to achieve?
Say I have a Weapon parent class, and then a Ranged child class and a Melee child class, is there a way to check to see if my pointer is pointing to a Ranged class or Weapon class?

maybe something like:

Turing:

import Weapon, Ranged, Melee var w : ^Weapon if w Is Ranged then     put "You are carrying a ranged weapon" elsif w Is Melee then     put "You are carrying a melee weapon" end if

is there any way to do that aside from making boolean variables in the parent class and calling those?

[Nick]

I think you're looking for objectclass. Take a look at the following

Turing:

class Foo end Foo class Bar     inherit Foo end Bar class Baz     inherit Foo end Baz var foo : ^Foo new Foo, foo var bar : ^Bar new Bar, bar var baz : ^Baz new Baz, baz if objectclass (foo) = Foo then     put "foo is Foo" end if if objectclass (bar) >= Foo then     put "bar is at least Foo" end if if objectclass (foo) < Baz then     put "foo is a parent of Baz" end if

[smool]

thx