Interfaces, among other things, are a way to bring in some features from
multiple inheritance. I think the term is one-sided multiple inheritance.
If multiple inheritance is good or bad is a separate topic. With time, one
begins to doubt the utility of classes in the first place and starts to
appreciate ANSI C :-)
On Sun, 21 Sep 2014 21:28:24 +0300, Boian Mitov <mi...@mitov.com> wrote:
Ahh... the schizophrenic nature of Object Pascal :-D, I never understood
why interface and class should be different at first place, considering
that interface is practically nothing more than pure abstract class with
ref. counting. Why the separated syntax etc. is beyond me... Surely
helps with the language keyword pollution....
With best regards,
Boian Mitov
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From: Gennady Agranov
Sent: Sunday, September 21, 2014 11:15 AM
To: fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org
Subject: Re: [fpc-devel] Suggestion: reference counted objects
Coming from Java I could not even comprehend at the beginning that if
variable type is interface - it is reference counted, but if variable
type is a class that implements interface - it is not ?!
Regards,
Gena
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