TCustomVariantType.LeftPromotion Method

Indicates whether the left argument to a binary operation should be coerced to a different type.

Pascal

function LeftPromotion(const V: TVarData; const Operator: TVarOp; out RequiredVarType: TVarType): Boolean; virtual;

C++

virtual __fastcall Boolean LeftPromotion(const TVarData V, const TVarOp Operator, TVarType RequiredVarType);

Description

Override LeftPromotion to indicate when the left argument for a binary or comparison operation should be implicitly cast to another type before performing the operation. LeftPromotion is called when the right-hand Variant in a binary or comparison operation is of this Variant type and

The left-hand argument is a built-in Variant type.

The left-hand argument is a custom Variant type that does not indicate any problem with this Variant type for the right-hand argument.

V is the TVarData record for the left-hand argument of the operation.

Operator indicates the type of operation. It can be any of the operators in the following table:

Value	Operation
opAdd	addition
opSubtract	subtraction
opMultiply	multiplication
opDivide	floating-point division
opIntDivide	integer division
opModulus	remainder
opShiftLeft	left shift
opShiftRight	right shift
opAnd	bitwise and
opOr	bitwise or
opXor	bitwise exclusive or
opCompare	any comparison operation

RequiredVarType returns the Variant type code for the type to which the left-hand argument should be cast before performing the operation. If the operation can proceed with the left-hand argument left as-is, RequiredVarType returns the VType field of V.

LeftPromotion returns true if the TCustomVariantType descendant can perform the operation (using the BinaryOp, CompareOp, or Compare method) assuming the left-hand argument can be cast to RequiredVarType. It returns false if the TCustomVariantType descendant can't perform the operation.

As implemented in TCustomVariantType, LeftPromotion returns the VarType property as RequiredVarType, and returns true.