[fpc-devel] Improved RTTI compromise

[Sven Barth]

Am 07.12.2016 13:58 schrieb "Michael Van Canneyt" <michael at freepascal.org>:
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> On Wed, 7 Dec 2016, Sven Barth wrote:
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>>> Trying to generate the exact same information as Delphi is IMHO not the
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>> right path.
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>>> What is needed is an API that gives you the info contained in the
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>> internal structures.
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>> That's what the RTTI unit is there for. It provides a higher level API to
>> the type information than typinfo does.
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> I was hoping to avoid the RTTI unit, it has a horrible, Horrible, HORRIBLE
> interface in my opinion. (probably again some misguided .NET clone
attempt)

I can't really comment on that since I had left Delphi before that was
introduced.

> But no matter:
> If the info is there, I can write my own interface which is more to my
liking.
> I don't care about Delphi compatibility in these matters. What matters is
> that the concept is there, the exact API I will creatre form myself.

The typinfo unit will definitely expose all the information as well (the
RTTI unit will probably simply use the data that typinfo provides).

Regards,
Sven
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