> > OTOH 'specialize' is an additional > > (unfamiliar) keyword and has semantics totally unknown to the world. > > So why not take what's already in the language? > > As I said, to emphasis that a new type is created, generic > specialization is something really new to the language. The meaning of > type ... = type ...; is imo very unclear.
Well, it's the Delphi way of creating a new type rather than an alias. > > FPC's generics are, however, very different to all other > > implementations of generics that I know of. And I really(!) hope, > > that FPC does not do the C++ like duck-typing, which could give > > FPC works in this regard as C++ which is not nice but much more flexible > being not only some type cast wrapper generator as in C# etc. Well, you know my opinion. This is type-unsafe, C-style, poor-man's generics. You are asking for trouble by following that route. And one last time - C#/.NET generics are not only some 'type cast wrapper': think about working static fields, co-/contravariance ... . Java generics, however, could be described as type cast wrapper generators. And everybody on earth knows that Java generics are broken. > Let us know if you've something working and regarding the branch: just > tell me if you need one. Ok, thanks! Willi -- GMX DSL SOMMER-SPECIAL: Surf & Phone Flat 16.000 für nur 19,99 Euro/mtl.!* http://portal.gmx.net/de/go/dsl _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel