In our previous episode, Alexander Klenin said: > On Sat, Jan 26, 2013 at 9:31 AM, Sven Barth <pascaldra...@googlemail.com> > wrote: > > TFPGListLongInt = specialize TFPGList with (Integer); > > > > Whatever the particular syntax, I do agree that the decision to use > angular brackets > was unnecessarily copied from C++ -- round ones (or, at least, square > ones) would be much better.
Delphi got its generics from .NET. The .NET compiler got it one version earlier. (D2007, native D2009) Probably the main reason for generics was access the 2.0 framework which was new (and used generics) going from D2006 to D2007 _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
