[fpc-devel] Improved RTTI compromise

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Wed, 7 Dec 2016, Sven Barth wrote:

> Am 07.12.2016 13:58 schrieb "Michael Van Canneyt" <michael at freepascal.org>:
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>> On Wed, 7 Dec 2016, Sven Barth wrote:
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>>>> Trying to generate the exact same information as Delphi is IMHO not the
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>>> right path.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> What is needed is an API that gives you the info contained in the
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>>> internal structures.
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>>> That's what the RTTI unit is there for. It provides a higher level API to
>>> the type information than typinfo does.
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>> I was hoping to avoid the RTTI unit, it has a horrible, Horrible, HORRIBLE
>> interface in my opinion. (probably again some misguided .NET clone
> attempt)
>
> I can't really comment on that since I had left Delphi before that was
> introduced.
>
>> But no matter:
>> If the info is there, I can write my own interface which is more to my
> liking.
>> I don't care about Delphi compatibility in these matters. What matters is
>> that the concept is there, the exact API I will creatre form myself.
>
> The typinfo unit will definitely expose all the information as well (the
> RTTI unit will probably simply use the data that typinfo provides).

That's what delphi also does, as far as I can see.

Michael.