Gee John, isn't it amazing how this thread has evolved? Or is it devolved?
>Hiya JimB...
>
>>Of course if the horse has a swim method and the arguments included what side should be down a simple Horse.Swim("Back") could do the trick. :-)
>
>DEFI CLASS mammal AS custom
> MammalType=""
> FUNC Init
> LPARMS cMammalType
> THIS.MammalType=cMammalType
> RETURN
> ENDFUNC
> FUNC Swim(cDirection)
> cResults="Lived"
> IF cDirection="Back"
> IF THIS.MammalType="Horse"
> cResults="Drowned"
> ENDIF
> ENDIF
> RETURN (cResults)
> ENDFUNC
>ENDDEFINE
>
>oHorse=CREATEOBJECT("Mammal","Horse")
>cResult=oHorse.Swim("Back")
>?cResult
>
>Drowned
>
>Damn...I guess it would drown :-)
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