[fpc-devel] Templates / Generics

Marco van de Voort marcov at stack.nl
Fri Nov 4 08:59:10 CET 2005


> Delphi 11 .Net 2.0 will support  Generics. Maybe Delphi 11 Win32.
> There is already proposal:
> 
>    http://qc.borland.com/wc/qcmain.aspx?d=11168
> 
> The FPC syntax must be at least a subset of the Borland syntax to be 
> compatible.

Only if they are usuable for FPC.  Delphi.NET has .NET 2.0 generics as target,
which are a bit odd IIRC (only for types that can implement an interface, and
_runtime_ (JIT) instantiation of the templtated code)

FPC has native as focus. Let's not forget that.



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