[fpc-devel] potential bug, generics vs helpers

[Kornel Kisielewicz]

On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 6:37 PM, Sven Barth <pascaldragon at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Now regarding Kornel's problem: we could(!) change the way the compiler
> works in non-Delphi modes to what is described in the documentation (by
> adding the type symbol's name to the generic's name as well), but this will
> mean that we would have to define how units in Delphi and non-Delphi modes
> can interact here. After that the corresponding code in the compiler can be
> implemented to ensure this.

Okay, after some thoughts about it, changing the implementation to the
way the documentation is written would also be bad, because sometimes
we need to access a generic from another generic, eg:

generic TGMatrix4<T> = record
type TVector4 = specialize TGVector4<T>;
...
end;

Obviously we want that TGMatrix4 to be compatible with any compatible
TGVector2 defined elsewhere... Same problem would be in the case of
implementation of some data structures.
-- 
regards,
Kornel Kisielewicz