On 14.02.2012 21:38, Carver413 wrote:
As long as one knows of the disadvantages of generics there is no
problem in enjoying their advantages.
the disadvantage will come in the useing. over time more and more units will
contain these because they are easy. so you will end up with a lot of redundant
code. doesn't matter if they know better or not. they will choose the easy path
and let someone else worry about it. just like many of the half ported code that
is out there, people port what they need to get there code working then
contribute it hoping someone else will finish.
It won't really matter to you whether some unit you got from somewhere
in the internet contains a specialization of a generic TList or whether
the list was implemented especially for that type.
Free Pascal is a native language. There aren't much alternatives to code
duplication.
Regards,
Sven
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