[fpc-pascal] java programmer

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Sat, 21 May 2005, Tony Pelton wrote:

> 
> the one thing that looks like it is going to be really painful for me
> with Pascal is the seeming lack of out of the box data structures.
> 
> in Java, there are a _very_ rich set of "collections" to use.
> 
> i've done some poking around on the net, and within the "units" that
> come with free pascal.
> 
> i'm not seeing anything right off that looks like a
> nice,clean,portable little unit that would emulate what i might find
> in java collections or C++ vector stuff.
> 
> anyone know of a quality implementation of this kind of stuff ?
> 
> minimally, an automatically resizing array implementation and a Hashtable ?

You might want to try Decal; It's a rich set of container classes. 
Although written for Delphi, it should compile for FPC without too 
much hassle; if not, feel free to contact me, I'll see what I can do.

Michael.