[fpc-devel] type discussion

[Jamie McCracken]

Vinzent Hoefler wrote:
> On Thursday 02 June 2005 15:16, Uberto Barbini wrote:
> 
> 
>>If the goal is this, I'd prefear a way to declare objects
>>autocreated:
>>
>>varauto:
>>  strlist: TStringList;
>>begin
>>  //some stuff
>>end;
> 
> 
> [...]
> 
>>It could be a problem to pass parameters to the constructor.
> 
> 
> Yes, exactly. So why bother the extra complexity? You still need the 
> "real thing", so for consistency it's better to stay with it only.

Thats why I proposed a month back in my modernising pascal thread to 
implement things like a stringlist as a base type container (like pyhton 
does with lists, dicts etc). This would then be dynamically allocated 
and ref counted.

jamie.