[fpc-devel] Suggestion: reference counted objects

[Dmitry Boyarintsev]

On Sat, Sep 20, 2014 at 3:43 PM, Boian Mitov <mitov at mitov.com> wrote:

>   PS. Forgot the mention the anonymous methods – a real revolution when
> you do multithreading or parallel processing. Anything else looks like joke
> next to them... You can see some of my examples from interview in the
> Blaise Pascal Magazine http://www.blaisepascal.eu/. Also did a session on
> it at PasCon in Holland, and will do also in Milan and in CodeRage, so you
> can see and judge for your self, and BTW anonymous method storage is ref
> counted also ;-) .
>

To be more accurate..
You're talking about "closures". The difference between closures and
anonymous functions is explained here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Closure_(computer_programming)#History_and_etymology
the second paragraph.


thanks,
Dmitry
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