[fpc-pascal] Smart Pointers

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Wed, 11 May 2016, Sven Barth wrote:

> Am 11.05.2016 14:42 schrieb "Maciej Izak" <hnb.code at gmail.com>:
>>
>> 2016-05-11 14:23 GMT+02:00 Michael Van Canneyt <michael at freepascal.org>:
>>>
>>> Where is that written ?  As far as I know, it is only there because
> classes
>>> is there, and classes has some define to allow it to be compiled with
> fgl.
>>>
>>
>> by Sven (29 January 2016 10:54 thread "Generics.Collections as package
> for Lazarus or package for FPC RTL"):
>>
>> "also fgl is a nice test durog cycling the compiler that nothing basic
> was broken with generics; one of the main reason it's still in rtl and not
> rtl-objpas or rtl-extra"
>>
>>  keeping module in RTL just to have nice test to check compiler cycle is
> ... very very very strange.
>
> And I stand by that decision. Generics are a rather frickle feature and I
> want to know of critical failures as early as possible (and yes, I've made
> use of that already numerous times!), thus I prefer fgl to be part of the
> cycling and unlike fcl-stl or these Delphi compatible ones the fgl unit is
> comparatively small.

Sven, you must run the testsuite for this. 
So do Jonas and Florian. That is what it is for.

I have no doubt that generics are frickle. So are many other features.
So this is in its core a lazyness argument, which I think is not very correct.

Michael.