[fpc-devel] Management operators AddRef and Copy vs Copy

[Anthony Walter]

Do the source and dest types need to match? How about:"CopyFrom"? As it is
right now you already have type parity between types such as floats <-
integer and string <- char, so why not between TBar <- TFoo?

class procedure TBar.CopyFrom(constref Source: TFoo; var Dest: TBar);

Then this begs question, what's the difference between AutoCopy/CopyFrom
and:

class operator TBar.Implicit(const Value: TFoo): TBar;
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