[fpc-devel] Feature announcement: Type helpers

[Sven Barth]

Am 06.02.2013 11:29, schrieb Michael Van Canneyt:
> We'll have to make some units with 'standard' helpers.
>
I agree.

> I assume Delphi XE3 has such a unit, we can use that for inspiration.
>
The problem is that Delphi stuffs all helpers into the main units... 
e.g. TStringHelper and TDateTimeHelper are both located in unit System...

>>> Thank you very much Sven, excellent work ! :-)
>> You're welcome. And now I'm going to make Marco happy by further 
>> improving generics :)
>
> You might want to look at the bug reported by Ido Kanner ;-)
He's using TFPSMap, not TFPGMap :)

Nevertheless I had taken a quick look, but I don't know what's really 
wrong yet...

Regards,
Sven