On Thu, 2019-05-30 at 01:42 +0200, Sven Barth via fpc-devel wrote: > Nikolay Nikolov <nick...@gmail.com> schrieb am Do., 30. Mai 2019, > 00:52: > > So, what's with all this FUD surrounding operator overloading not > > working with objects? Did you even test it, before screaming > > "legacy!"? :) > > He's talking about operator overloads that are members of the object > like what was introduced for records and not about global operators. > And yes, there's a small, but important difference: generics can only > pick up the global ones if the unit containing the operator overloads > was used inside the unit the generic was declared in (not specialized > in).
Thanks for the clarification. I didn't know about this difference and thought it was just different syntax (namely Delphi copying C++ and C# instead of following FPC, which had operator overloading long before Delphi). Nikolay _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
