[fpc-pascal] Generic type declaration example versus manual.

[Marco van de Voort]

In our previous episode, Michael Van Canneyt said:
> > Version A repeats redundant information. Of couse TStack<T> is
> > generic, it has those angle brackets after the identifier. They
> > wouldn't be legal in a type block unless it was a generic declaration.
> > Therefore the word generic is redundant.
> 
> Well, in
> 
> Var
>    A : Integer;
> 
> The 'Var' is strictly speaking also redundant, as the : is used only in 
> variable declarations. But the 'var' makes it easier to read, and 
> Pascal is a verbose language. Additionally, the parsing is easier 
> to do, as you know what to expect next. By that rationale, the 'generic' 
> keyword was deemed appropriate when FPC made it's implementation.

(Redundancy plays its main role in case of detecting errors and
error-recovery. Both in natural as artificial languages. Errormessage
quality is one of the main benefits of FPC/Delphi IMHO )