[fpc-devel] Object upgrades

Ryan Joseph ryan at thealchemistguild.com
Sun May 26 16:34:59 CEST 2019



> On May 24, 2019, at 4:49 AM, Sven Barth via fpc-devel <fpc-devel at lists.freepascal.org> wrote:
> 
> Please don't. They're legacy types (even though we don't consider them obsolete) and geared towards the TP behavior and compatibility. 
> 

{ resending this again because the old message got blocked } 

I thought FPC was trying to keep them alive? Objects are still the only way to do inheritance for records but they lack operator overloads. The syntax for new/dispose certainly feels legacy but that’s not as important as the class operators.

Regards,
	Ryan Joseph




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