[fpc-devel] Considerations about observer [was: Free Pascal 2.6.2 rc1]

[Marcos Douglas]

On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 5:23 AM, Vincent Snijders
<vincent.snijders at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2012/11/28 <michael.vancanneyt at wisa.be>
>> It IS a big change. There is production code out there that uses this,
>> and this is an incompatible change.
>
> Then Luiz is right on time with his proposal, with the frist release
> candidate of the first release that contains this feature. If
> production code already uses it, then the production code writers must
> have taken a risk for change knowing that this was a not yet released
> feature.

+1

>>
>> I can change the internals so speed is gained during notifyobservers,
>> but I do not see sufficient reasons to change the interface and introduce an
>> incompatibility.
>
> Incompatibility with not yet released code?

I agree.

Marcos Douglas