Re: [fpc-devel] 2 Ideas for generic TDictionary and other hash containers

2025-03-27 Thread Marco van de Voort via fpc-devel
Op 27-3-2025 om 12:28 schreef Martin Frb via fpc-devel: which returns True, if Akey was found and therefore APtr points to existing Data, while otherwise APtr points to the empty slot, where the data can be copied to. Without a key, you can't find the bucket or whatever where to allocate,

Re: [fpc-devel] 2 Ideas for generic TDictionary and other hash containers

2025-03-27 Thread Stefan Glienke via fpc-devel
For your second feature request it just needs a method added to THashSet that retrieves the stored item based on the passed key. > On 27/03/2025 12:28 CET Martin Frb via fpc-devel > wrote: > > > There are 2 features, I am missing. > > And I can't see a way to add them via subclassing, as th

Re: [fpc-devel] 2 Ideas for generic TDictionary and other hash containers

2025-03-27 Thread Stefan Glienke via fpc-devel
It does not violate the contract imho. In a TDictionary it would return a pointer to V which is valid because it either retrieved an existing entry or added a new one with default(v). I implemented this a while ago in Spring4D roughly following the API that was introduced in .NET some time ago.

Re: [fpc-devel] 2 Ideas for generic TDictionary and other hash containers

2025-03-27 Thread Martin Frb via fpc-devel
On 27/03/2025 12:45, Martin Frb via fpc-devel wrote: On 27/03/2025 12:33, Marco van de Voort via fpc-devel wrote: Op 27-3-2025 om 12:28 schreef Martin Frb via fpc-devel: which returns True, if Akey was found and therefore APtr points to existing Data, while otherwise APtr points to the empty

Re: [fpc-devel] 2 Ideas for generic TDictionary and other hash containers

2025-03-27 Thread Martin Frb via fpc-devel
On 27/03/2025 12:33, Marco van de Voort via fpc-devel wrote: Op 27-3-2025 om 12:28 schreef Martin Frb via fpc-devel: which returns True, if Akey was found and therefore APtr points to existing Data, while otherwise APtr points to the empty slot, where the data can be copied to. Without a k

[fpc-devel] 2 Ideas for generic TDictionary and other hash containers

2025-03-27 Thread Martin Frb via fpc-devel
There are 2 features, I am missing. And I can't see a way to add them via subclassing, as the internal FItems array is private, and neither TItem, nor TPair can be gotten by the integer index into that array. 1) AddOrGetPointerToEmpty This would actually just be to try and see if it gives any