[fpc-devel] RussianlocaleinformationnotcompatiblewithFPClocalevariables

[Boian Mitov]

 I agree 100%.
They are not doing hacks however. I have read some of the books written by 
them, and they have followed a very strict scientific approach. It really 
made my head spin at the time ;-) . I have done some STL compliant 
containers, and yes I hate it, but I was able to do it.
There are better languages for conceptual programming, from what I have 
heard but we seem to be stuck with C++ and OPascal for the moment ;-) . We 
will do our best with them.
Hopefully the next C++ standard will help a bit in this area and will allow 
concept declarations and validations.
The problem is that conceptual programming actually is a totally different 
concept from the OOP and one of the requirements is that the concept must be 
hierarchy impendent, so you can make any existing class concept compliant at 
any level and point.
I made existing library STL compliant without touching the hierarchy which I 
was not allowed to do any way and it worked.
All this simply does not seem to be doable with generics.

  With best regards,
    Boian Mitov

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ales Katona" <almindor at gmail.com>
To: "FPC developers' list" <fpc-devel at lists.freepascal.org>
Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2008 9:59 AM
Subject: Re: [fpc-devel] 
RussianlocaleinformationnotcompatiblewithFPClocalevariables


> Note that I'm not trying to do a "who can piss further" thing here. Just 
> saying that IMHO the way C++ does this isn't exactly great.
>
> The idea behind it is nice, however apart from pure OOP approach I don't 
> see much choice of how to do this nicely.
>
> Ales
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