[fpc-devel] Object upgrades (new)

[Sven Barth]

<wkitty42 at windstream.net> schrieb am Mo., 17. Juni 2019, 02:07:

> On 6/16/19 6:44 PM, Ryan Joseph wrote:
> >
> >
> >> On Jun 16, 2019, at 6:00 PM, Benito van der Zander <benito at benibela.de>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> Objects are much more useful than classes or records
> >
> > Now that’s an inflammatory statement! :) But seriously, I do miss record
> inheritance from C++, C#, Swift when I’m in Pascal.
>
>
> what always confused me these days is that records and objects were one
> thing
> back in the (TP6) day but today they are something quite different... i
> had to
> be very careful when i wrote my satellite TLE management tool because of
> these
> differences...
>

Ehm... TP style objects were already quite different to records back in TP
days. After all the former supported inheritance and (virtual) methods
while the later supported variant parts.

Regards,
Sven

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