[fpc-devel] implicit generic specialization modeswitch name

Sven Barth pascaldragon at googlemail.com
Sun Mar 24 17:18:41 CET 2019


Am 24.03.2019 um 15:02 schrieb Ryan Joseph:
> For my patch https://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=35261 I have named the modeswitch “implicitgenerics” but Florian liked the name “implicitfunctionspecialization” (long but clear were his words). Btw this is the mode switch will allows specialization of generic routines by inferring the types from the parameters.
>
> I have no preference either way but I wanted to ask the list if they had any better ideas to contribute. If there’s nothing better I’ll just defer to what Florian wants.
I agree with Florian that a better name is needed for the modeswitch 
("implicitgenerics" as a different meaning in my opinion). But I don't 
have a better idea than "implicitfunctionspecialization" either...

Regards,
Sven



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