[fpc-pascal] Class reference doubt

[Jonas Maebe]

On 24 Nov 2011, at 02:58, Luiz Americo Pereira Camara wrote:

> On 23/11/2011 18:48, Jesus Reyes wrote:
>> in the following example The output is:
>> cls class is TFoo
>> TObj.create
>>
>> where I would expect:
>> cls class is TFoo
>> TObj.create
>> TFoo.create
>
> I also hit this problem recently
>
> Found that this is one limitation of fpc. Under newer delphi it's  
> possible to get the expected behavior without forcing programmer to  
> create a virtual constructor by using the new RTTI

I find it very hard to believe that the behaviour of existing code  
like that would suddenly change (and hence potentially break programs)  
simply because extra RTTI is added.


Jonas