Hi, I've been playing around with Generics for a few hours - simply to see what all the fuss is about. I was given the following Delphi link to help explain generics. http://sjrd.developpez.com/delphi/tutoriel/generics/
I noticed very early on that FPC has a very different sytax to Delphi. I guess that's because FPC implemented generics first? The catch-22 case. Do we innovate and be the first (of our competitors) to support generics, or do we wait and simply follow the crowd. Obviously there are pros and cons for both cases. Are there plans to change the syntax to match Delphi? I don't want to implement many things now, simply to have to change them in the future when the syntax gets updated. Anyway, I found the "fgl.pp" unit which contains a generic list: TFPGList class. Does FPC include any other classes for use with generics? Why can't I do the following: procedure WriteSquares(AMax: Integer); var List: specialize TFPGList<integer>; begin List := TFPGList<integer>.Create; ...instead I have to ALWAYS declare a type first.... type TIntList = specialize TFPGList<Integer>; procedure WriteSquares(AMax: Integer); var List: TIntList; begin List := TIntList.Create; Regards, - Graeme - _______________________________________________ fpGUI - a cross-platform Free Pascal GUI toolkit http://opensoft.homeip.net/fpgui/ _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
