[fpc-devel] Additional generic type constraints

Sven Barth pascaldragon at googlemail.com
Mon Feb 20 17:12:42 CET 2023


Hairy Pixels via fpc-devel <fpc-devel at lists.freepascal.org> schrieb am So.,
19. Feb. 2023, 03:54:

> As a follow up to my other question, why doesn’t FPC support more types
> for generic type constraints, like Pointer, Integer, String etc...?
> Especially since we have implicit function specialization now allowing the
> user to constrain the types more precision would help.
>

Because Delphi doesn't have them and when constraints were implemented they
were implemented for Delphi compatibility.

Regards,
Sven
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