On Thu, 13 Nov 2003, Demian Lessa wrote:
> Peter, > > Thanks for clearing things a little further! > > I see that many responses refer to Delphi compatibility. I understand > that the FP compiler has a switch that tells it to compile the pascal > code as Delphi code. In that sense, I'd expect FP to provide a superset > of the Object Pascal dialect. And that is true indeed! > > FP offers operator overloading, which is not an Object Pascal feature. > I'm not yet familiar with the compiler but I guess many other features > are also particular to FP. > > Many of us (Delphi/Kylix developers) find many features missing in the > Object Pascal compiler and we see FP is a real chance to get those > features working. RTTI, for instance. Why shouldn't all objects have > RTTI? Why should only TPersistent descendants have it? As to that, the answer is simple: RTTI for all objects would blow up your executable. RTTI information takes up a *lot* of space in your executable. It's a burden, and people who don't need it should have the chance not to use it. This is impossible if you force RTTI in TObject. Since TPersistent descends directly from TObject, I don't see the problem. If you need it, descend from TPersistent. If you don't: descend from TObject. Michael. _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
