As a piece of anecdotal evidence, the fact that FPC does not "properly" support interfaces was the reason for at least one company I worked for to reject it and move to Delphi 2007 instead (from Delphi 7).
I can understand the reluctance to implement under-specified behavior, but I think FPC would benefit from *some* way to specify auto-disposed objects, even if not Delphi-compatible. Maybe some "magic" type or a special keyword? Maybe steal "using" statement from C#? Or, equivalently, specify interface lifetime when used in "with" statement? -- Alexander S. Klenin _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
