I think I already learned this and I forget when I had the idea about TypeInfo.
:)
This is basically the pattern I’m attempting. I have a generic class and I
thought I could avoid specializing and making a subclass so that I could call a
method if the type of the generic was a class. So what happens as you now is
that I can’t cast “value” to TObject because if the generic was specialized as
an integer for example, the type cast would be illegal and I get stuck at
compile time (Illegal type conversion: "LongInt" to "TObject”).
Is there anyway I could push the type checking to runtime? I wanted to using
writeln also to perform some printing for debugging but I get stuck at compile
time again trying to mix, integers, strings, records, classes etc… in the
generic. I would use an interface but there are compiler types and records
involved so that’s not an option.
type
TLongIntMatrix = specialize TMatrix<LongInt>;
TObjectMatrix = specialize TMatrix<TObject>;
function TMatrix.RetainValue (value: T): T;
begin
if typeKind = tkClass then
TObject(value).Retain;
result := value;
end;
Regards,
Ryan Joseph
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