Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
Hi,
What are your feelings about the use of Variants? I'm debating this
in another NG and would like some outside opinion.
My personal opinion on Variants:
* I don't like them. [if that's a reason] :-)
Well they were darn useful in Delphi when dealing with
Graeme Geldenhuys schrieb:
Hi,
What are your feelings about the use of Variants? I'm debating this
in another NG and would like some outside opinion.
My personal opinion on Variants:
Variant based code is a nightmare to maintain. Just let somebody else
extend some variant based code. How
Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
On Tue, 13 Nov 2007, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
* They tend to be slow compared no native types. In
Delphi 6 they were very slow. How does it compare
in FPC 2.2.0?
They are slower than native types, there is no way around this.
Almost each and
Florian Klaempfl wrote:
Graeme Geldenhuys schrieb:
Hi,
What are your feelings about the use of Variants? I'm debating this
in another NG and would like some outside opinion.
My personal opinion on Variants:
Variant based code is a nightmare to maintain. Just let somebody else
On Tue, 13 Nov 2007, Sam Liddicott wrote:
Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
On Tue, 13 Nov 2007, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
* They tend to be slow compared no native types. In
Delphi 6 they were very slow. How does it compare
in FPC 2.2.0?
They are slower than
* Michael Van Canneyt wrote, On 13/11/07 08:47:
On Tue, 13 Nov 2007, Sam Liddicott wrote:
Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
On Tue, 13 Nov 2007, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
* They tend to be slow compared no native types. In
Delphi 6 they were very slow. How does it
On Nov 13, 2007, at 10:12 AM, Sam Liddicott wrote:
* Michael Van Canneyt wrote, On 13/11/07 08:47:
On Tue, 13 Nov 2007, Sam Liddicott wrote:
Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
On Tue, 13 Nov 2007, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
* They tend to be slow compared no native types. In
Delphi 6
* Damien Gerard wrote, On 13/11/07 09:31:
I think it is the same debate between C++ programmers et PHP programmers.
Nearly. It's a meta-debate on whether or not pascal users should be
ALLOWED to use variants, not whether or not pascal should implement
everything as a variant.
The first group
On Nov 13, 2007, at 10:59 AM, Sam Liddicott wrote:
* Damien Gerard wrote, On 13/11/07 09:31:
I think it is the same debate between C++ programmers et PHP
programmers.
Nearly. It's a meta-debate on whether or not pascal users should be
ALLOWED to use variants, not whether or not
* Damien Gerard wrote, On 13/11/07 10:43:
I don't think nobody is complaining here since everybody is free to
use it or not.
Oh some people complain about the widget encapsulation ??? So they
don't use QT as well and if they want a multiplatform software what do
they use ? Java ? :)
And
On Nov 13, 2007, at 12:03 PM, Sam Liddicott wrote:
* Damien Gerard wrote, On 13/11/07 10:43:
I don't think nobody is complaining here since everybody is free to
use it or not.
Oh some people complain about the widget encapsulation ??? So they
don't use QT as well and if they want a
On Tue, Nov 13, 2007 at 09:47:31AM +0200, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
What are your feelings about the use of Variants? I'm debating this
in another NG and would like some outside opinion.
Use for what?
My personal opinion on Variants:
* I don't like them. [if that's a reason] :-)
*
On 13/11/2007, Marco van de Voort [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, Nov 13, 2007 at 09:47:31AM +0200, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
What are your feelings about the use of Variants? I'm debating this
in another NG and would like some outside opinion.
Use for what?
In tiOPF we have a Criteria
* Graeme Geldenhuys wrote, On 13/11/07 12:39:
On 13/11/2007, Marco van de Voort [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, Nov 13, 2007 at 09:47:31AM +0200, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
What are your feelings about the use of Variants? I'm debating this
in another NG and would like some outside
On 13/11/2007, Sam Liddicott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The tiOPF project is normally against using Variants,
this interesting if it is a blanket policy, unless it is a blanket policy
against the blanket use of variants :=)
tiOPF does contain variants in code, we are just trying to minimize
Marco van de Voort wrote:
Being generic database support (allows to have generic code to talk to
databases, without having the database layout in some structure form
compiled in), COM support, or PHP (www.stack.nl/~marcov/phpser.zip )
They were never meant to be used as normal variables.
Variants can be NULL. That's a great thing.
2007/11/13, Graeme Geldenhuys [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Hi,
What are your feelings about the use of Variants? I'm debating this
in another NG and would like some outside opinion.
My personal opinion on Variants:
* I don't like them. [if that's a
On 13/11/2007, Alexsander Rosa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Variants can be NULL. That's a great thing.
We already have NULL support in tiOPF without the use of variants!
Regards,
- Graeme -
___
fpGUI - a cross-platform Free Pascal GUI toolkit
How does it work?
2007/11/13, Graeme Geldenhuys [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On 13/11/2007, Alexsander Rosa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Variants can be NULL. That's a great thing.
We already have NULL support in tiOPF without the use of variants!
Regards,
- Graeme -
On 13/11/2007, Alexsander Rosa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
How does it work?
You can download and view the code from SourceForge. Or go to the
tiOPF website and get links from their. http://www.tiopf.com
The unit of interest or standing point would be Source/Core/tiObjects.pas
Regards,
-
The websvn link on http://tiopf.sourceforge.net/SourceCodeRepository.shtml Is
broken.
Sam
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From: Graeme Geldenhuys [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 13 November 2007 17:44
To: lazarus@miraclec.com
Subject: Re: [lazarus] The use of Variants?
On 13/11/2007, Alexsander Rosa [EMAIL
On 14/11/2007, Sam Liddicott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The websvn link on http://tiopf.sourceforge.net/SourceCodeRepository.shtml Is
broken.
The text shown is correct, but the actual link is still the old one.
Thanks, I'll update the website now.
Here is the correct link:
Hi,
What are your feelings about the use of Variants? I'm debating this
in another NG and would like some outside opinion.
My personal opinion on Variants:
* I don't like them. [if that's a reason] :-)
* They seem like a bit of a hack. Native types seem to be a
better solution to
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