[fpc-devel] Templates / Generics

[Mattias Gaertner]

On Fri, 04 Nov 2005 08:38:03 +0100
rstar at mnet-online.de wrote:

> Alexey Barkovoy wrote:
> 
> >>> Delphi 11 .Net 2.0 will support  Generics. Maybe Delphi 11 Win32.
> >>
> > ....
> >
> >> This page looks only like the start of a proposal. Neither complete nor
> >> official.
> >> Why do you think, that D2006 will have generics?
> >
> >
> > Not Delphi 2006, but Delphi 2007

Thanks for the hint.
Although the interesting question is: Will Delphi get generics this decade
and how will they work?
It seems, they want the same syntax as their C compilers and their .NET
code. So, there is a good chance, that it will be the <> notation, which
gives additional trouble for the parser.


Mattias