In our previous episode, Sven Barth said: > >> I wonder where you were when Operators feature has been added to > >> pascal? Or generics? > > > > Generics was implemented without my knowledge. I only found out when > > suddenly > > the classes unit had been changed to use them. After a horrible > > discussion, this was reversed, because of the drop in speed you got when > > using generics. > > Ah! So that is where those ifdefs in classes come from :) I always > wondered...
Moreover, Delphi's generic TList<> is in generics.collections, not in classes. There is no tstringlist<>, they went with a Dictionary instead. _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel