> On May 26, 2019, at 5:50 PM, Kostas Michalopoulos <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> Do records support inheritance in next FPC? 3.0.4 doesn't seem to
> allow that and this is the main reason i use objects when i need value
> types.
No, only objects. Objects don’t have operator overloads though so they can’t be
used in some cases. Of course records could support inheritance but I think
that’s even more contentious (and instrusive to the compiler) than adding
operator overloads to objects.
>
> Actually, what are the differences between records and objects that
> make it impossible for records to get objects' features or objects to
> get records' features so there is no difference between the two and
> one become alias for the other?
Records don’t have a VMT table and overriding but otherwise they’re the same
afaik (constructors don’t work the same also). Operator overloads simply aren’t
enabled for objects because apparently they’re a legacy syntax but as you
pointed out they’re still useful. Being able to use subclassing for TVec2 ->
TVec3 -> TVec4 objects would be really useful. I hope the compiler team
reconsiders this.
Regards,
Ryan Joseph
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