[fpc-devel] Generic keywords mode switch

[Sven Barth]

Hairy Pixels <genericptr at gmail.com> schrieb am Mo., 13. Juni 2022, 05:30:

> Me and Sven had planned this a couple years ago and I finally got around
> to it this weekend since it was pretty trivial. The reason for this being
> we wanted a way to disable the generic keywords in ObjFPC mode. The
> solution is to decouple the keywords from the ObjFPC mode and put them
> under a mode switch.
>
> Basically now the generic and specialize keywords are enabled via the
> generickeywords mode switch, which is implicitly enabled in ObjFPC mode and
> can be disabled using {$modeswitch generickeywords-}. Technically they can
> be enabled in Delphi mode also although maybe this should be illegal.
>
> I ran all the tests which still pass but I'm very nervous about this
> introducing regressions so it will need a good review. :)
>
> https://gitlab.com/freepascal.org/fpc/source/-/merge_requests/240


This won't be added until I've implemented the backwards compatible  type
overloading in non-Delphi modes.

Regards,
Sven
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