[fpc-devel] New feature announcement: constant parameters for generics

[Florian Klaempfl]

Am 26.04.2020 um 11:02 schrieb Michael Van Canneyt:
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> On Sun, 26 Apr 2020, Ryan Joseph via fpc-devel wrote:
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>>> On Apr 26, 2020, at 2:38 PM, Michael Van Canneyt 
>>> <michael at freepascal.org> wrote:
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>>> As the original author, can you say something about the intended use 
>>> of this feature ?
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>> It was meant for a pretty narrow use of array types. If I knew how 
>> much work it would be to implement I probably would have not done it. 
>> :P I personally wanted it for static array lists that had methods like 
>> Add/Delete.
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> Fixed-length arrays are the only practical use I can think of.
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> The record with constants example is too convoluted to my taste.
> As a reader, I find such code hard to understand.
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> Thanks for the examples !

Another example might be headers for embedded systems.