Am 22.04.2011 13:32, schrieb michael.vancann...@wisa.be: > > > On Fri, 22 Apr 2011, Florian Klämpfl wrote: > >>> (I suspect this is why it is possible to add type restrictions in the >>> Delphi/.Net implementations) >>> >>> 2. If I have my own overloaded version of '+' for a record, the above >>> means that it >>> cannot ever be used for generics, while it will be used for all my >>> other code. >>> >>> Say I define a type, and decide not to put the operators inside the >>> record, >>> for whatever reason. I am happily unaware of generics. Along comes an >>> afficiniado of generics, and wants to use my type in generics, but hits >>> the above problem. He is stuck. >> >> No. He can define a record helper operator. > > Which then simply repeats what I already had ? Very efficient :-)
Speedwise it makes no difference. The difference is to have simple rules which symbols are defined during specialization. _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal