[fpc-pascal] Re: State of fcl-stl generics lib

[Florian Klämpfl]

Am 20.01.2013 14:22, schrieb Michael Van Canneyt:
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> On Sun, 20 Jan 2013, Florian Klämpfl wrote:
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>> Am 20.01.2013 11:15, schrieb Michael Van Canneyt:
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>>> On Sun, 20 Jan 2013, Florian Klämpfl wrote:
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>>>> Am 20.01.2013 06:17, schrieb leledumbo:
>>>>> No one seems to see: http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=23654 :(
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>>>> Well, it's a new feature: just slapping another piece of code into
>>>> fpc-stl not improving existing stuff.
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>>> No, but adding things from time to time shows it is not dead code :-)
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>> Indeed, but the additions should follow a common goal and as far as I
>> understood, fcl-stl shall provide opaque containers which is not the
>> case for a tree implementation.
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> ? Why not ? I see no difference with a list or collection ?

A tree is something implementation specific while the fpc-stl is only
about opaque data structures. E.g. the fpc-stl supports TSet: but the
whole implementation is hidden. The user does not/need not to know how
the set works internally. It could be a linked list, a tree, whatever.