super() call should not be required if there is no constructor

[eladb]

I tried this:

bring cloud;

class Foo extends cloud.Function {
  
}

This happened:

error: Missing super() call as first statement of Foo's constructor
  --> wing/main.w:3:7
  |
3 | class Foo extends cloud.Function {
  |       ^^^

I expected this:

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Is there a workaround?

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Anything else?

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Wing Version

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[yoav-steinberg]

just clarifying that the desired behavior is just to use the parent ctor if none is provided (and there are no new fields that need to be initialized).

[Chriscbr]

I think TypeScript does something similar. 👍 For anyone implementing the feature, something like this should work:

class Foo extends cloud.Function {}

but this should still emit an error (because the new field needs to be initialized):

class Foo extends cloud.Function {
  bar: str;
  // error: missing constructor ("bar" needs to be initialized)
}

(side note: if Wing had abstract classes there might be more edge cases, but I guess we aren't dealing with that quite yet :-))

[yoav-steinberg]

I think TypeScript does something similar.

It does, but I also verified that there are OO languages that don't, Java for example. I'm still for this feature.