> On May 24, 2019, at 1:17 PM, Sven Barth via fpc-devel
> <fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org> wrote:
>
> This is not desired, because it would mean that for *all* assignments between
> *any* class type it must be at least checked for management operators or it
> must be forbidden that a class type with management operators can be assigned
> to a variable of a parent class that does not have them.
> The former is definitely not desired, because it means a performance impact
> for otherwise cheap assignment. And the later can become annoying as hell
> when you want to pass an instance e.g. to a TNotifyEvent or store it in a
> TStringList's Objects property.
Isn’t this what fully ARC languages like Swift do though? I would think this
would be an interesting option to at least be available for particular use
cases.
Regards,
Ryan Joseph
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