> On May 24, 2019, at 10:44 AM, Anthony Walter <sys...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Ryan, I believe the compiler already has management support for complex
> types. That is for BOTH records and classes. All that is required is you have
> a supported version of the compiler and you add the sugar in the form of
> AddRef, Initialize, and Finalize. See this page for more information:
>
> http://wiki.freepascal.org/management_operators
Exactly, it’s already there it’s just not supported for classes until a little
extra work is done (even interfaces use it). I guess it’s under scrutiny now
but I just made some changes so management operators work for old-style objects
and noticed it would be fairly trivial to add support to classes also. Not sure
why this wasn’t done in the first place because it makes ARC style memory
management possible without record wrappers and default properties.
Regards,
Ryan Joseph
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