[fpc-pascal] Generics in Delphi mode?

2011-03-30 Thread timveldhuizen 
Hi. I just found out today that generics also work in Free Pascal (and as I
understand it, it was even implemented before it was added in delphi :) ).

However, the way it was implemented makes me frown a bit. Not that it is
that bad or unusable or illogical, but as I use Delphi mode, I was expecting
it to be compatible to the way it works in delphi. In other words: with the
same syntax and same generic types like TList and TObjectList etc... Now I
still have to add a number of $IFDEF's everywhere to make it compatible with
delphi even though I i've used:

{$IFDEF FPC}
  {$MODE DELPHI}
{$ENDIF}

I hope very much that this will be changed to a delphi compatible style,
because if even the delphi compatible mode starts to deviate from delphi,
then how far will the compatibility mode implementation be from the
Embarcadero delphi language spec in something like 5 years from now?

Greetz,
Tim.

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Re: [fpc-pascal] Generics in Delphi mode?

2011-03-30 Thread Žilvinas Ledas 

Hi,

On 2011-03-30 21:59, timveldhuizen wrote:

I hope very much that this will be changed to a delphi compatible style

It is already implemented in Trunk ;)


Regards,
Žilvinas
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Re: [fpc-pascal] Generics in Delphi mode?

2011-03-30 Thread Tim Veldhuizen 
Hi,

2011/3/30 Žilvinas Ledas 
> It is already implemented in Trunk ;)

Wonderful! I can hardly wait for it to be released in a stable
version. I have version 2.4.0 here as the default freepascal package
in Fedora 13, but I'll give the new release a spin as soon as it's
out. I don't see a release date announcement anywhere though. Guess
we'll have to be patient..

Thanks!
Tim.
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Re: [fpc-pascal] Generics in Delphi mode?

2011-03-30 Thread Jonas Maebe 

On 30 Mar 2011, at 21:28, Tim Veldhuizen wrote:

> Wonderful! I can hardly wait for it to be released in a stable
> version. I have version 2.4.0 here as the default freepascal package
> in Fedora 13, but I'll give the new release a spin as soon as it's
> out. I don't see a release date announcement anywhere though. Guess
> we'll have to be patient..

It won't be in the next stable release (2.4.4), but only in the next major 
release (2.6.0). There is no date yet for the latter.


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[fpc-pascal] Re: Generics in Delphi mode?

2011-03-30 Thread leledumbo 
Can't wait? Just take the snapshots ;)

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