[fpc-devel] Object upgrades (new)

[Sven Barth]

<wkitty42 at windstream.net> schrieb am Mo., 17. Juni 2019, 14:15:

> 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...
>

You are talking about classes, aren't you?


> > 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...
>

But back in the days the objects were already different from records.
And yes, both are again different from classes.

Regards,
Sven

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