<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 5:49 PM, Boian Mitov <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mitov@mitov.com" target="_blank">mitov@mitov.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">On Fri, 19 Sep 2014, Adriaan van Os wrote:<br>
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Your remarks seem to imply that you think RTTI can be used to inspect any aspect of an object.<br>
It was/is not meant for that.<br>
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Quite incorrect. All languages with modern RTTI allow for full object inspection, and that includes Delphi 2010 and higher, C#, and even VB has it.<br>
The fact is that FPC is just stuck in the last century, and the lack of any even remotely decent RTTI in it makes it unsuitable for any modern development.<br>
Our code nowadays relies nearly 100% on advanced RTTI, and it was one of the major factors, we decided to discontinue any attempts to support Lazarus.<br>
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If the Lazarus goal is to be just what D7 was ~12 or so years ago, fine, but then easier goal is to be just what Turbo Pascal was in the late 80s or even easier goal, just be an assembler.<br>
The world has moved since 2000, and FPC seems to be downright stuck technology wise IMHO :-( .<br>
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With best regards,<br>
Boian Mitov</blockquote><div><br></div><div><div>I may be wrong, but if I'm not mistaken, the new Delphi XE RTTI is being implemented in FPC.<br></div><div><br></div><div>My dream is see a project like DORM (<a href="https://delphi-orm.googlecode.com/files/dorm_introduction.pdf">https://delphi-orm.googlecode.com/files/dorm_introduction.pdf</a>) implemented with FPC. :-)</div></div><div> </div></div>-- <br>Silvio Clécio<br>My public projects - <a href="http://github.com/silvioprog" target="_blank">github.com/silvioprog</a>
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