[fpc-pascal] Syntax changes suggestions

[Ryan Joseph]

> On Jul 18, 2018, at 12:47 PM, Sven Barth via fpc-pascal <fpc-pascal at lists.freepascal.org> wrote:
> 
> A point against stack based classes is that Object Pascal's object model is highly geared towards polymorphism (with things like virtual class methods and constructors that C++ does not support). You can't make use of this however if the class is instantiated on the stack. 

Isn't that what Object does though? Something strange happened when FPC implemented classes because they didn’t unify the model between stack and heap. That was the obvious thing to do in my mind.

I remember back when I was using Objects and doing like C++ where I used new to allocate on the heap then dereference using ^. to access members. When classes came around I thought, this is nice, no more new and ^. everywhere and easier to use. Fast forward to today and I want the option to go stack based back but the models have diverged so much it’s not possible anymore. 

Just now I wanted to use TFPGList and I wanted it on the stack because I didn’t want it to survive outside the function I was in. What do I do now?

Regards,
	Ryan Joseph