[Vala] inherited constructors

[pancake <pancake youterm com>]

I was trying to write some classes in Vala using basic inheritance but
looks like the compiler does not inherits the class constructors that
takes at least 1 argument. If the constructor gets no parameters it is
inherited.

Is this the correct way to do it or it is a bug in Vala? It will safe
me from lot of copypaste if I can just keep the same constructor for the
child classes.

It is possible to call upper class constructors or methods like in java?

public Child(string str) {
 super(str);
}

It is at least possible to do it :) And i think..a prefered way to work.

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Here's an example:

$ cat base.vala
public class Base : Object
{
       public string str;

       public Base(string str) {
               stdout.printf("base constructor\n");
               this.str = str;
       }

       public virtual void foo() { /* empty */ }
}


$ cat child.vala
public class Child : Base
{
       public override void foo()
       {
               stdout.printf("Hello %s\n", this.str);
       }

}

void main()
{
       stdout.printf("Main\n");
       var ch = new Child("perro");
       ch.foo();
}

$ valac *.vala
child.vala:13.11-13.28: error: Too many arguments, method `Child.new' 
does not take 1 arguments
       var ch = new Child("perro");
                ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Compilation failed: 1 error(s), 0 warning(s)