[fpc-pascal] for..in loops?

[Dean Zobec]

Marco van de Voort wrote:

>>Lukas Gebauer wrote:
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>>>Look to next Pascal language enhancements 
>>>in Delphi-2006... (like operator overloads or class variables...)
>>>we already have them in free pascal for a couple of years iirc and I've
>>>never used them.
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>That's because they are quite limited if you have dynamic, non garbage collected
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>For .NET that is no problem, since the objects are GCed, and for C++ they are static.
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>But for native Delphi, there is no good solution to do OO without a thick
>helper layer.
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I remember I've successfully used them with refcounted interfaces in a demo
see 
http://www.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/trunk/fcl/fpcunit/exampletests/money.pp

but still doing
a + b or a.add(b) it's not that different and maybe the second is clearer;

Ciao, Dean