[fpc-devel] Templates / Generics

[Christian Iversen]

On Friday 04 November 2005 10:33, Vinzent Hoefler wrote:
> On Friday 04 November 2005 09:25, Micha Nelissen wrote:
> > Marc Weustink wrote:
> > > If the generic is "pre"compiled (which is maybe necesary if you
> > > need access to privates) then I fear some runtime logic has to be
> > > added to call the correct procedure. IE. something like
> > >
> > >   case TypeInfo(Data) of
> > >     StringType: Show(Data);
> > >     IntegerType: Show(Data);
> > >   end;
> >
> > The whole idea of Generics is to avoid this :-)
>
> At user level, yes. But as a compiler-writer you'd gotta make it work
> somehow.

Yes, "somehow", and not like that ;-)

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Regards,
Christian Iversen