Swift — Require classes implementing protocol to be subclasses of a certain class

Update. In the latest Swift version you can just write protocol TransmogrifiableView: NSView { func transmogrify() } , and this will enforce the conformer types to be either NSView, or a subclass of it. This means the compiler will “see” all members of NSView. Original answer There is a workaround by using associated types to … Read more

Backbone.js view inheritance

The easiest way to inherit a view is to do what other people have already suggested in the comments: var Pannel = Backbone.View.extend({ }); var PannelAdvanced = Pannel.extend({ }); But like you’ve noted in your comments, if you have an initialize method in Pannel, then it won’t be called if you also have an initialize … Read more

How do I extend a host object (e.g. Error) in TypeScript

Update for TypeScript 1.6: It’s now possible to directly extend from the Error class, the code in my original answer still works, but there’s no longer a need for the export declare class Error. Original answer: Most of the answers here don’t meet my requirements. The originally accepted answer doesn’t compile anymore since 0.9.5 with … Read more

More complex inheritance in YAML?

Unfortunately, you can’t get the kind of “inheritance” you want to achieve because YAML’s “inheritance” is more like a form of “merging hashes”. Expanding out your configuration at the point you use the *default alias, you have: foo_database: server: ip: 192.168.1.5 port: 2000 db_name: test user: name: root password: root If you use hashes with … Read more

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