[fpc-devel] Generics Basics

Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho felipemonteiro.carvalho at gmail.com
Wed Nov 9 02:03:03 CET 2005


I´m starting to like generics, specially for this:

> (as a side note, note the only reason why anybody bothers with type safe
> compiled languages is strong type checking, that is total _compile time_
> strong type checking, also known as "if it compiles, it works (mostly)".
> If it weren't for that advantage (ok, and the speed advantage when done
> right), nobody would use strongly typed languages)

Sounds very pascal to do compile time checkings. This increases the
efficiency of the programmer, diminishing the errors.

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Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho



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