[fpc-devel] Status report for "class helpers"

[Sven Barth]

On 29.01.2011 18:08, Paul Ishenin wrote:
> 29.01.2011 23:58, Sven Barth wrote:
>> This is one of those moments where I need to restrain myself to not
>> swear for the whole world to hear...
>>
>> *sigh*
> I had the same feeling when I found that generics are stored as TFoo<,>
> in the delphy symtable and therefore it is possible to have TFoo,
> TFoo<T>, TFoo<T1,T2>, TFoo<T1,T2,T3> types in the same unit :)

At least I'm not alone with that feeling. :P

>> Does the nested class helper adhere to visibility rules? E.g. if you
>> make it "strict private" or "strict protected" does it still work? Or
>> if you put the class in another unit and lower the visibility
>> somewhere below public? (I can't test now, because I have Delphi only
>> at work)
>
> For some reason the visibility is completely ignored here. I can add a
> class helper to the strict private or even move it to another unit - it
> is always visible.

Thanks for testing.

So suggestions regarding implementation?
Ignore in mode Delphi as well and enforce visibility rules in mode ObjFPC?

Regards,
Sven