[fpc-devel] When will the next version of FPC be released?

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Sat, 1 Jun 2019, Ben Grasset wrote:

> On Sat, Jun 1, 2019 at 10:58 AM Sven Barth via fpc-devel <
> fpc-devel at lists.freepascal.org> wrote:
>
>> I personally consider it a worthwhile addition.
>>
>
> What version did Delphi add that in? I honestly had no idea it was a thing.
>
> Makes it seem especially strange that they still don't have freestanding
> generic methods.

In fact, your choice of words betrays the reason: 
They want everything to be objects or records, with methods.

The traditional term for 'freestanding methods' is simply 'procedure' or
'function'. Using them is 'procedural programming'.

So, they "deprecate" 'procedural programming'. All should become OOP.
I really think it is a marketing decision, not a technical one.

Michael.