On Tue, 5 Feb 2008, Tiziano De Togni wrote:
> > From the Delphi (7) help and in the borland newgroups I read that the old TP > style object type is considered to disappear, and actually only kept for code > compatibility. > > I see here that some developers still use the type object because of some > advantages against the Class type (static allocation). > > Can someone explain better these advantages? The advantage is mainly that you can have objects on the stack. > > My other question is: > Will Free Pascal still support the type object in the future or it is > considered to disappear in the same way as it is expected in Delphi? It will not disappear, but all new development is done using classes: the old objects will not evolve. Michael. _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
