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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Nov 25, 2025 at 9:55:46 PM, Martin Frb via fpc-devel <<a href="mailto:fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org">fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org</a>> wrote:<br></div>
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<div>Thanks, which just for confirmation brings up a follow up question.
(I haven't used generic function much yet, so maybe I miss
something)<br>
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<font face="monospace"> function Foo (aParam: Integer):
integer;<br>
generic function Foo<T>(aParam: t) : integer;</font><br>
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Those are 2 different function too? (not an overload? because "T"
could be integer in same cases)<br>
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Do you then always have to call the generic using <br>
specialize Foo<integer>(1)<br>
?<br>
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I seem to remember a discussion about adding automatic
specialization?<br>
But then<br>
foo('abc') // would be clear, to specialize with string<br>
but<br>
foo(1) // could be either
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</div><div dir="ltr">yes those are two different functions. The generic function is just a template which includes the parsed tokens and is named with $X where X is the number of generic parameters. Only at the time of specialization is the code generated, until the it's just an array of tokens.</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">there is a {$modeswitch implicitfunctionspecialization} mode switch ( my work so I apologize for the bugs 😂) which infers the parameter type so that foo('abc') becomes foo<String>('String').</div></body></html>