Remove restriction on defining the class of a TclOO object not explicitly

instantiated from ::oo::class.

2 files changed, 2 insertions, 17 deletions

diff --git a/generic/tclOODefineCmds.c b/generic/tclOODefineCmds.c
index c08b350..7c2a641 100644
--- a/generic/tclOODefineCmds.c
+++ b/generic/tclOODefineCmds.c
@@ -1143,7 +1143,6 @@ TclOODefineClassObjCmd(
 {
     Object *oPtr;
     Class *clsPtr;
-    Foundation *fPtr = TclOOGetFoundation(interp);
 
     /*
      * Parse the context to get the object to operate on.
@@ -1180,20 +1179,6 @@ TclOODefineClassObjCmd(
 	return TCL_ERROR;
     }
 
-    /*
-     * Apply semantic checks. In particular, classes and non-classes are not
-     * interchangable (too complicated to do the conversion!) so we must
-     * produce an error if any attempt is made to swap from one to the other.
-     */
-
-    if ((oPtr->classPtr==NULL) == TclOOIsReachable(fPtr->classCls, clsPtr)) {
-	Tcl_SetObjResult(interp, Tcl_ObjPrintf(
-		"may not change a %sclass object into a %sclass object",
-		(oPtr->classPtr==NULL ? "non-" : ""),
-		(oPtr->classPtr==NULL ? "" : "non-")));
-	Tcl_SetErrorCode(interp, "TCL", "OO", "TRANSMUTATION", NULL);
-	return TCL_ERROR;
-    }
 
     /*
      * Set the object's class.
diff --git a/tests/oo.test b/tests/oo.test
index 3be5f79..4f9490b 100644
--- a/tests/oo.test
+++ b/tests/oo.test
@@ -1707,13 +1707,13 @@ test oo-13.2 {OO: changing an object's class} -body {
     oo::objdefine foo class oo::class
 } -cleanup {
     foo destroy
-} -returnCodes 1 -result {may not change a non-class object into a class object}
+} -result {}
 test oo-13.3 {OO: changing an object's class} -body {
     oo::class create foo
     oo::objdefine foo class oo::object
 } -cleanup {
     foo destroy
-} -returnCodes 1 -result {may not change a class object into a non-class object}
+} -result {}
 test oo-13.4 {OO: changing an object's class} -body {
     oo::class create foo {
 	method m {} {