[fpc-devel] Suggestion: reference counted objects

[silvioprog]

On Sun, Sep 21, 2014 at 9:15 AM, Chriss Kalogeropoulos <
iz.iznogood at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Sven,
>
> This design means that old classes need to be subclassed in order to
> enable this feature,  correct?
> Would it be possible instead of declaring this on the class definition, to
> declare it on the actual variable? Something like
>
> var aArcObj: TFooObj; refcounted;
>
> Or similar.
>
> This would allow the same classes to be used both ways.
>
> Also how about a smart pointer record  implementation with generics? Is it
> possible ?
>
> Thanks,
> Chriss
>

Or enabling via compiler switch, like:

http://docwiki.embarcadero.com/RADStudio/XE4/en/Automatic_Reference_Counting_in_Delphi_Mobile_Compilers

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Silvio Clécio
My public projects - github.com/silvioprog
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