[fpc-pascal] Smart Pointers

[Sven Barth]

On 09.05.2016 22:11, Florian Klämpfl wrote:
> Am 09.05.2016 um 21:40 schrieb Maciej Izak:
>> 2016-05-09 19:50 GMT+02:00 Mazo Winst <mazofeifer at gmail.com <mailto:mazofeifer at gmail.com>>:
>>
>>     I read that mails about implementation of management operators and smart pointers.
>>
>>     1 - These features are expected to be available in which version?
>>
>>
>> The feature is ready and works almost perfectly but I need more time to tests. It brings also
>> nullable types (nullable type is kind of smart pointer) and it brings new kind of type helpers for
>> example for dynamic arrays, interfaces and in practice for any other types (side effect of new
>> syntax ;) ).
>>
>> IMO there is very weak chance for merging into official FPC trunk.
> 
> Who said that? We discussed the syntax etc. and at least I see good changes to integrate it in trunk
> as soon as it is ready. Neither Sven nor me would discuss a feature if we are in doubt that it will
> make it in trunk.

I agree with Florian regarding the management operators. They will
probably be merged.
What I'm not in favor of however is overloading of "." and such (but you
haven't put that up for discussion yet, thus for now I'm not considering
it part of your branch anyway).

Regards,
Sven