In our previous episode, Tomas Hajny said: > >> TSortedCollection (as provided in unit objects). > > > > The classes unit also has a TCollection, which can be sorted on any field > > of > > the collection items ? > > When looking at it, using or descending Classes.TCollection for simple > data records seemed to be considerably more complex than with > Objects.TSortedCollection (I studied our documentation and also searched > on WWW for general Delphi examples). I even found an implementation of the > TP/BP TSortedCollection for the Delphi model on the Web (based on Delphi > classes) which kind of suggested that the original TP/BP objects could > provide some additional value (by saving some effort necessary otherwise). > Admittedly, it might easily be due to lack of my knowledge, but these were > my results.
IIRC the problem with TP collections was that the forall operator used hackery to call a nested procedure. With proper ISO procedure variable support in 2.6.0 that could be done good :-) _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
