[fpc-devel] Re: [fpc-l] type discussion

[Jamie McCracken]

Vinzent Hoefler wrote:
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>>manual memory management of tobjects is redundant as you can get good
>>performance with ref counting tobjects.
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> That can be a point, yes. But it is somehow not related to any syntax.

It means not having to bother with my pet hate the try..finally..free

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>>All in all the changes would mean you spend more of your time
>>implementing your application rather than typing loads of redundant
>>code.
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> Typing is only a very small part of the development cycle. Performance 
> measures indicate that rhe average programmer delivers about 2 to 20 
> lines per code per day (measured over the whole development cycles, 
> this of course includes testing, too).
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> Compare these with the lines of code you *could* write in eight hours if 
> you would just write them and you see how much you could optimize away 
> there if you'd actually manage to double the performance.

You are referring to an industrial strength development process taht is 
not used by a lot of developers (at least not that I know of considering 
Delphi is a RAD tool and is primarily used as such).

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>>Maintenance is easier as their is less redundancy.
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> It simply depends on the kind of redundancy.
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> For instance, "type" and "var" keywords are just redundant, the compiler 
> could figure it out by itself, still they serve a useful purpose.

but that harms legibility. I wanna balance that trims the fat but not 
the legibility.

jamie.