Re: [fpc-pascal] New Feature: 'Management Operators'

2016-11-10 Thread leledumbo
> FPC will have the garbage collection, but the question remains what happens in Delphi? None of my concern actually. It's a simple unit without compiler magic (but requires compiler support for the operator syntax). > Would delphi create a similar feature, but make it incompatible with fpc? AF

Re: [fpc-pascal] New Feature: 'Management Operators'

2016-11-10 Thread Lars
On Wed, November 9, 2016 2:40 am, denisgolovan wrote: > Yes. Mostly. > > > More general advantage is that this feature might finally bring > FreePascal back into league of languages having nice support for value > types (as opposed to OOP atrocities). To put it in other words, functional > style mi

Re: [fpc-pascal] New Feature: 'Management Operators'

2016-11-10 Thread Lars
On Wed, November 9, 2016 7:11 am, leledumbo wrote: >> anyway probably I have no motivation anymore to continuing my work. > > Too bad, if only at least the patch for this feature is integrated, I can > start arguing to my employer again that Pascal has simple, user > selectable garbage collection

Re: [fpc-pascal] New Feature: "Management Operators"

2016-11-09 Thread leledumbo
> anyway probably I have no motivation anymore to continuing my work. Too bad, if only at least the patch for this feature is integrated, I can start arguing to my employer again that Pascal has simple, user selectable garbage collection mechanism. I really wanna know who's the person that you men

Re: [fpc-pascal] New Feature: 'Management Operators'

2016-11-09 Thread denisgolovan
Yes. Mostly. More general advantage is that this feature might finally bring FreePascal back into league of languages having nice support for value types (as opposed to OOP atrocities). To put it in other words, functional style might become both feasible and sufficiently fast in FreePascal.

Re: [fpc-pascal] New Feature: 'Management Operators'

2016-11-08 Thread Lars
On Tue, November 8, 2016 1:47 am, Maciej Izak wrote: > 2016-11-07 22:24 GMT+01:00 African Wild Dog : > > >> >> I saw on the bug tracker a patch submission by Maciej Izak about the >> feature "Management Operators". >> >> This feature is related to Automatic Reference Counting? >> >> > > Yes. We hav

Re: [fpc-pascal] New Feature: "Management Operators"

2016-11-08 Thread denisgolovan
  08.11.2016, 11:48, "Maciej Izak" : anyway probably I have no motivation anymore to continuing my work. That's unfortunate for the community, IMHO.Personally, I appreciate your idea of management operators. -- Regards,Denis Golovan  ___ fpc-pascal mailli

Re: [fpc-pascal] New Feature: "Management Operators"

2016-11-08 Thread Maciej Izak
2016-11-07 22:24 GMT+01:00 African Wild Dog : > > I saw on the bug tracker a patch submission by Maciej Izak about the > feature "Management Operators". > > This feature is related to Automatic Reference Counting? > Yes. We have a working ARC objects (not official yet, very raw form without "comp

[fpc-pascal] New Feature: "Management Operators"

2016-11-07 Thread African Wild Dog
Hello, I saw on the bug tracker a patch submission by Maciej Izak about the feature "Management Operators". This feature is related to Automatic Reference Counting? Regards ___ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepa