[fpc-pascal] Syntax changes suggestions

[Ben Grasset]

Well, the array TFPGList uses for storage would still be allocated on the
heap in any case no matter what...

On Wed, Jul 18, 2018 at 3:10 PM, Ryan Joseph <ryan at thealchemistguild.com>
wrote:

>
>
> > 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
>
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