[fpc-pascal] Re: Delphi's anonymous functions in Free Pascal

[Martin Schreiber]

On Monday 07 November 2011 17.02:59 Luiz Americo Pereira Camara wrote:
> > Is there a big demand? Examples?
> 
> I speak only for myself.
> 
> This is a component that i'd like to see compiled with fpc
> 
> http://code.google.com/p/emballo/
> 
> The problems
>   - generic support: bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=20503 . Can be
> workaround by type casting
>   - reflection/rtti support to call constructor of a given TClass. Can
> be work around by registering a function that returns an instance or
> using AfterConstruction to setup object instead of the constructor directly
> 
> BTW: i will take the old version version of emballo and rewrite it in an
> "FPC compatible way" to get things done in the meantime.
> 
> Looking also to http://code.google.com/p/delphi-spring-framework/ and
> http://code.google.com/p/delphi-orm/
> 
So probably there are at least two different expectations into FPC which can't 
be fulfilled both: "best general purpose software development environment 
ever" and "100% current Delphi compatibility".

Martin
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