On Friday 04 November 2005 09:25, Micha Nelissen wrote:
> Marc Weustink wrote:
>
> > If the generic is "pre"compiled (which is maybe necesary if you
> > need access to privates) then I fear some runtime logic has to be
> > added to call the correct procedure. IE. something like
> >
> >   case TypeInfo(Data) of
> >     StringType: Show(Data);
> >     IntegerType: Show(Data);
> >   end;
>
> The whole idea of Generics is to avoid this :-)

At user level, yes. But as a compiler-writer you'd gotta make it work 
somehow.


Vinzent.

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