[fpc-devel] Interface delegation fix: backport to FPC 2.4.2 ...?

Marco van de Voort marcov at stack.nl
Thu May 20 15:32:26 CEST 2010


In our previous episode, Vincent Snijders said:
> >> I wonder if something like class helpers is able to solve this, 
> >> like Matt suggested.
> > 
> > As I mentioned in another reply, class helpers are a pretty useless feature
> > in Delphi and will not solve much. So the other message for reason why.
> 
> Then they must be designed/implemented better to support multiple extensions for a 
> particular class. Sorry I used the wrong word, Matt.

I think the Delphi devels had the same choice as Jonas' answer to the Object
Pascal categories.  Doing it better probably requires changing the object
model, change of object hierarchy, and likewise incompatible changes.






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