Hi, Am Donnerstag, den 10.11.2005, 20:24 +1100 schrieb 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. > > > Can someone explain it to me in a (relatively) simple way? > > > > > > What problem is it trying to solve? > > > > It makes types parametrizable. > > > Just my two cents worth: > > To me generics should essentially make FPC a typeless language.
no, more typesafe, rather. > i.e. everthing > is an object and you just pass messages between objects, ala Smalltalk. No > How it > is implemented is a moot point because at the top level you shouldn't be able > to see the implementation of the objects. Depends on what you mean by "see" > > 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. Can you explain that some more? > > Feel free to shoot me down in flames as I have not been following this > discussion fully to understand all of its details > > John cheers, Danny _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
