[fpc-devel] Generics

[rstar at mnet-online.de]

Flávio Etrusco wrote:
> On 4/9/06, Florian Klaempfl <florian at freepascal.org> wrote:
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>> rstar at mnet-online.de wrote:
>> (...)
>> Is there already a specification how they will look like in Delphi?
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>>> (.net2)? What's planned? Can somebody explain?
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>> They are more like C++ templates.
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> What? Do you mean that FPC implementation of generics wouldn't be
> based on "type erasure" but on beefed-up-precompiler-macros? Please
> say I got it all wrong :-o
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> -Flávio
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Generics are "type safe".