[fpc-pascal] List of integers? Any class available in RTL or FCL to help?

[Sven Barth]

Am 05.12.2016 12:01 schrieb "denisgolovan" <denisgolovan at yandex.ru>:
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> 05.12.2016, 13:35, "Sven Barth" <pascaldragon at googlemail.com>:
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>> I really don't get why some people think of generics as complex -.-
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> Exactly for the cited reason. See below.
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> > Using plain old arrays, requires reinventing the wheel because you end
up
> > writing duplicate functions for each array type (array of string)
instead
> > of a general purpose algorithm for many types..
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> It's not possible to get uniform interfaces that would play nice with
algorithms.
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> Try writing a _single_ function for sorting static arrays, dynamic
arrays,open arrays, generic containers(T*List * all value types).
> The standard recipe is re-implement everything from scratch over and over
again.
> Even now, when we have generic functions - I am forced to specialize them
by hand! Even C# got it right...
> Another issue is that some special functions are considered "special" -
you cannot overload them (SetLength, Copy, ...).
> Yet another thing is that arrays are nice value-pretending types
(refcouting), but most generics are classes!
> We desperately need http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=30687 to get
record based generics value types back to the language.
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> Basically it's all about combinatorics when combining functions.
> Either compiler does it for you, or you are forced to do it manually
instead.
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> To sum up, generics in current implementation add too little while
exploding combinatorial variety of algorithms.
>

Again: I don't see why anyone thinks of generics as complex. Your mail did
not answer that in any way.

Regards,
Sven
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