In our previous episode, fpcl...@silvermono.co.za said: > > I would think that some of the above feature had to be introduced into .Net > because a (close to) pure OO impementation does not support global vars, > global functions etc. as a hybrid language like Object Pascal does.
Java and C#/CLR are usually considered as not pure OO. Pure OO doesn't know value types. I think most of these were just about scoring bullets on the comparison list with C#, except "strict var". Questions about private visibility have appeared regularly in forums for years, usually comparing with other languages. I think codegear was simply tired of the debate and implemented "strict *", for people that want to micromanage visibility (*) Afaik Florian did some of the easier later constructs, but be careful, some might not be complete (only parsed). I recall something of the class var/const etc also working. There is to my knowledge no real roadmap, since these things are not driven by roadmap, but by need. Somebody who wants them spends time on them etc. Probably the slow progress is because none of these are particularly exciting, and nearly all public codebases and components are D7 backwards compatible and thus don't contain these. (*) something which is IMHO not proper OO, which is about modelling not about finegrained permission models. What's next, classtypes with ACLs ? :-) _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
