<p>Am 23.07.2015 09:21 schrieb "Maciej Izak" <<a href="mailto:hnb.code@gmail.com">hnb.code@gmail.com</a>>:<br>
>> > Some people love Oxygene, and you can't tell that the Oxygene is not the Pascal. Any new construction will be "non pascalish" at first glance. <br>
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>> No, that depends heavily on the specific construction. Mostly whether it was obviously just "ripped" from other languages like C# without giving a second thought about the way how things should be done in Pascal (for example attributes or Delphi's generics) or not (for example tuples in Oxygene).<br>
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> IMO Delphi/Oxygene generics are better for real life development. FPC specialize keyword is nightmare and not intuitive construction. Generics should be short in usage. They exist for clear and reusable constructions. I need to cite you: "Prefixed modifiers are the /worst/ you can do for Pascal.". By introducing "specialize" keyword, you deny yourself. </p>
<p>I should have written this in the other thread where you mentioned this, but I forgot, so: I agree that "specialize" falls into the same "prefixed modifiers are the worst" category. The cleanest way for specializations would be something like "TMyGeneric with (Longint, String)" or so, this way there would be no potential disambiguity. <br>
Nevertheless "specialize" had been introduced before my time, so I'm merely working with what already /is/ part of the Free Pascal dialect (generics were first introduced in 2.2 and I started working on the compiler with 2.6).<br>
That said: I /am/ working on Delphi compatible generics (in fact 3.0 is a big improvement compared to 2.6 in that regard, but it's still quite a way to go) and thus you /will/ be able to work with them in mode Delphi. So just use that mode and be happy.</p>
<p>Regards,<br>
Sven</p>