[fpc-devel] Russianlocale informationnotcompatiblewithFPClocalevariables

[Mattias Gaertner]

On Thu, 31 Jul 2008 02:32:02 -0700
"Boian Mitov" <mitov at mitov.com> wrote:

> I agree with your points, and I listed some of them.
> Pascal has its own long list of issues, such as lack of functional
> and block enclosement (Especially true in Lazarus and free Pascal).
> Conceptual programming is what STL does as example. You declare a
> concept and then you do implementations. C++ conceptual support is
> not very user friendly however, but still works. They may add some
> more support for conceptual programming in the next ANSI standard,
> but I have not checked it out yet.
> In conceptual programming you can create concepts that will work on 
> anything. The concepts will work on Integers or objects as well as on
> any type of container. There are number of books on STL and
> conceptual programming.
> Personally I think C++ is just not very good in it, but Pascal simply
> can't do it.

This was added recently:
See language reference 'generics' (chapter 8 in pdf).


Mattias