Am 29.08.2012 22:56 schrieb "Arioch" <arioch...@gmail.com>: > Surely 1949-styled Pascal can not make all that features 1st citizens. > The question is how much and in what style of compromise can be implemented. > Generics were also heresy for original Pascal. But they are implemented, > some in Delphi and to some seemingly less extent in FPC as well. > > While i pity divergence of syntaxes between Delphi and FPC generics, i > strangle would not pity if FPc finally implement > lambdas/closures/anonymous-methods in non-Delphi style. > Since Delphi style is so Pascalish, that it heavily limits their practical > use.
I don't know whether you tested recent versions of FPC, but since 2.6.0 the support for Delphi compatible generics improved, though generic functions/methods and constraints are still missing. Regards, Sven
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