[fpc-devel] New feature discussion: for-in loop
Marco van de Voort
marcov at stack.nl
Wed Oct 21 14:55:58 CEST 2009
In our previous episode, Jonas Maebe said:
>
> > I've a bit doubts, even aside from any direct opinion on the feature
> > itself,
> > to add functionality to emulate certain features from other
> > language's very
> > extensive libraries (like Java/.NET/Boost), since the development of
> > the last
> > very major feature (and its use), generics has stalled.
>
> You can always let development occur in a branch (such as with Paul's
> changes currently) and only merge to trunk once it's more or less
> finished.
That goes for the language feature maybe. The point is to make it
worthwhile, and used, it has to be integrated into everything. Which, as
that would introduce Delphi incompatibilities probably won't.
Just like generics that still consist mostly out of FGL.
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