Built-in types & LabVIEW Object Controls

[Tomi Maila]

Hi

I'd like to see the following modification in LabVIEW on the way towards fully object oriented language. Built-in types are not (yet) classes. However I would like to be able to pass them to subVIs as if they were classes. That is the LabVIEW type system should be modified so that built-in type can be connected to terminals that expect LabVIEW Object. Now it's not yet too late, as really nobody but me is using LVOOP.

This would be a first step towards fully object-oriented language where all built-in types were classes as well. After you can pass built-in types as if they were classes, the next steps would be specifying a class hierarchy for built-in types and finally allow users to derive from these types. Primitive nodes such as 'plus' node could then either be class methods of each of the built-in type or functions that accept types that inherit from built-in types.

Tomi