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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Oct 18, 2024 at 3:41:49 PM, Karoly Balogh via fpc-pascal <<a href="mailto:fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org">fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org</a>> wrote:<br></div>
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Maybe it was mentioned in the thread, I just glanced through it, but how<br>about ARC (Automatic Reference Counting), Objective C style? To be honest,<br>I really liked that, and we already have it kind of in place for strings,<br>even temporary strings and maybe even temporary arrays created inside a<br>function. We'd just need to extend it for a bunch of other things, I<br>suppose. Manual FreeAndNil() is the ugliest part of Object Pascal for me<br>for sure... OTOH, for Object Pascal you might end up with RAII in this<br>case, instead of ARC, because how how the language works. I did not like<br>it that much in C++, but maybe because modern C++ syntax is properly<br>horrid...<br>
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<div dir="ltr">The compiler already has all the plumbing for implementing this but they would need to agree to a new class type which includes has the same ref counting as AnsiString, Interfaces and other types. I mentioned this multiple times but Sven objected to it stating he already tried and uncounted some edge cases.</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">I think an entirely new class type would be required and that’s where the resistance came from. Sven can refresh us on this if he wants.</div><div dir="ltr">
<br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">Regards,</div> Ryan Joseph</div></div><br>
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