[fpc-pascal] Primitive Record Wrappers

[Mazola Winstrol]

2016-03-01 1:48 GMT-03:00 <wkitty42 at windstream.net>:

> On 02/29/2016 10:08 PM, Mazola Winstrol wrote:
>
>> There is a problem in my design. The code won't compile if i try to
>> specialize with a type which doesn'y supports arithmetic operators e.g
>> String
>> types.
>>
>
> apparently i'm missing something... why should arithmetic operators be
> recognized for strings? that doesn't make sense? arithmetic operators are
> for numerics not strings...
>
>
The operator shouldn't be recognized for strings. The problem is that we
are using a generic record for defining a nullable type. So, we can't make
a subclass to define operators applicable only for numeric types.
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