Re[2]: [fpc-devel] License of RTL

2005-11-10 Thread Pavel V. Ozerski
Hello Marco, Thursday, November 10, 2005, 10:53:09 AM, you wrote: Some files of RTL core are under the full GPL license, not a LGPL. Is it a new politics of FPC? MvdV No. Must have been an oversight/bad copy/paste. MvdV If you have more files, don't hesitate to name them. The syscallh.inc

Re: [fpc-devel] Templates / Generics; Vote

2005-11-10 Thread listmember
As far as voting goes, personally, I prefer something like this: GList = generic class(T) And, are we going to have non-class rotines, such as event declarations; i.e. TGenericCallback = generic function(AValue1: TGenericValue; AValue2: TGenericValue): Integer; TSomeGenericEvent =

[fpc-devel] gettext patch

2005-11-10 Thread Vincent Snijders
Hi, Attached patch removes the dos unit from the uses clause of the gettext unit. Patch is created in fpc/fixes/fcl. Regards, Vincent. Index: inc/gettext.pp === --- inc/gettext.pp (revision 1444) +++ inc/gettext.pp

Re: [fpc-devel] GetAppConfigDir under Unices

2005-11-10 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Thu, 10 Nov 2005, Michalis Kamburelis wrote: Hi I had some time today and I decided to write a simple patch that fixes GetAppConfigDir, adhering to basedir-spec. The arguments after adhering to basedir-spec are: - The idea to place things within .config/ seems sensible. - On my

Re: [fpc-devel] Generics Basics

2005-11-10 Thread John Briggs
On Tue, Nov 08, 2005 at 10:00:49PM +0100, dannym wrote: Hi, Am Dienstag, den 08.11.2005, 18:10 -0200 schrieb Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho: Hello, I am trying to understand what exactly generics are. I read the wiki page, but there are lot's of code examples and very few explanations.

Re: [fpc-devel] Generics Basics

2005-11-10 Thread Jonas Maebe
On 10 Nov 2005, at 10:24, John Briggs wrote: To me generics should essentially make FPC a typeless language. i.e. everthing is an object and you just pass messages between objects, ala Smalltalk. How it is implemented is a moot point because at the top level you shouldn't be able to see

Re: [fpc-devel] Generics Basics

2005-11-10 Thread Micha Nelissen
John Briggs wrote: The one thing that does concern me is why implement generics if you fail to implement the late binding of the objects which to me is the greatest gain of generic programming. Speed. What is late binding exactly ? What are you binding ? Micha