Re: [fpc-pascal] Generic type conflicts

On Wed, Nov 6, 2019 at 2:01 AM Sven Barth via fpc-pascal < fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org> wrote: > A normal if-statements has the same non-evaluation. > Not in the way I meant, though. Like, I thought the difference between "normal if" and "ternary if" was supposed to be the same as the differ

Re: [fpc-pascal] Generic type conflicts

Ben Grasset via fpc-pascal schrieb am Mi., 6. Nov. 2019, 15:43: > On Wed, Nov 6, 2019 at 2:01 AM Sven Barth via fpc-pascal < > fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org> wrote: > >> A normal if-statements has the same non-evaluation. >> > > Not in the way I meant, though. > > Like, I thought the difference

Re: [fpc-pascal] Generic type conflicts

On Wed, Nov 6, 2019 at 12:44 PM Sven Barth via fpc-pascal < fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org> wrote: > Pascal has a strong type safety, thus something like the if-expression > won't be used/allowed to weaken that. > > If that means that some things can't be implemented in generics the "easy" > way,

Re: [fpc-pascal] Generic type conflicts

On Wed, Nov 6, 2019 at 7:33 PM Ben Grasset wrote: > Encouraging typecasting (which cares only about the sizes of the types > involved, nothing else) at the programmer level is far more error-prone in > a variety of ways. > Also: it's slower in many cases, because it tends to involve "if" stateme

Re: [fpc-pascal] Generic type conflicts

Am 07.11.2019 um 01:42 schrieb Ben Grasset via fpc-pascal: On Wed, Nov 6, 2019 at 7:33 PM Ben Grasset > wrote: Encouraging typecasting (which cares only about the sizes of the types involved, nothing else) at the programmer level is far more error-prone i