> On Jun 7, 2019, at 4:51 PM, Sven Barth via fpc-devel
> <fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org> wrote:
>
> It has been part of FPC from the beginning of generics. It allows the parser
> to differentiate easier that a specialization is following. This was less
> important when only type declarations could contain specializations, but
> nowadays with support for inline specializations this is especially true as
> something with "<" in it is not always easy to differentiate between a
> specialization and an expression. Case in point: Delphi mode doesn't yet
> support all kinds of expressions containing specializations that mode ObjFPC
> supports.
Then maybe it could be optional within type declarations? Delphi mode achieves
this so I think ObjFPC could also. Yet another modeswitch like “autoderef”? :)
Regards,
Ryan Joseph
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