On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 10:26 AM, Sven Barth <pascaldra...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Am 04.01.2012 13:33, schrieb Marcos Douglas: > >> Object type is (very) older than Class type and I don't think the core >> team wanted some similarity between Object and Class types. Everybody >> prefer classes so, the Object type was forgotten. > > > It wasn't the core team who introduced the differences between classes and > objects, but Borland, who first created the "object system" in Turbo Pascal > and later switched to the more advanced "class system".
True, you're right. >> I thinking if the Object type will be deprecated in the future... I hope >> not. > > > As Free Pascal still writes on its flag that it is compatible to Turbo > Pascal I doubt that it will be deprecated (also there is quite some code in > the compiler and also in some packages which use object). Good to know ;) And, as somebody asked, what the advantages (performance?) using Object instead Class? I like to use Object to group routines instead of using procedure/functions... as a 'namespace' to not use the unit name as a prefix. I would to know what do you, guys, think about it. Marcos Douglas _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
