[fpc-pascal] Generics vs TCollection

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Wed, 9 Nov 2011, tcoq wrote:

> It's also possible to create a generic descendent of TCollection, where the only duplicated code is the property override. This is probably the best of both worlds: reusing the TCollection while moving to generics.

Hm. I fail to see this: Where is the gain in that ?

Michael.

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> Thierry
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> The difference is mainly that in the case of TCollection(Item) you need to
> override the items property; With generics, you can skip this step.
> At the expense of copying the whole TCollection code each time you create a
> specialized descendent.
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> Michael.
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