[fpc-devel] Object upgrades (new)

[wkitty42 at windstream.net]

On 6/17/19 1:54 AM, Sven Barth via fpc-devel wrote:
> <wkitty42 at windstream.net> schrieb am Mo., 17. 
> Juni 2019, 02:07:
> 
>     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. 


yes... what i'm saying is that today's are different and that's what confuses me...


> After all the former supported inheritance and (virtual) methods while the later 
> supported variant parts.


in the day that i speak of, records were simple static blocks that contained 
data in a certain defined order... today's records have methods, too, which are 
more like objects back then... i forget the difference between yesterday's 
objects and today's...


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