[fpc-pascal] Constants in generics

[Ben Grasset]

On Thu, Nov 8, 2018 at 11:50 PM Ryan Joseph <ryan at thealchemistguild.com>
wrote:

> Question: should other consts besides integers be allowed? I don’t think
> it makes sense personally to use strings, floats or sets but maybe I’m
> wrong.
>

As a daily FPC user there's nothing I find more annoying than compiler
restrictions that are visibly artificial, so I'd say you should definitely
allow basically anything that's physically possible to allow in that
context.
*Someone* will find it useful, trust me. I can already think of various
uses for string constants as generic parameters that I certainly would have
already done in the past if I could have, for example.

On Thu, Nov 8, 2018 at 11:50 PM Ryan Joseph <ryan at thealchemistguild.com>
wrote:

>
>
> > On Nov 9, 2018, at 4:28 AM, Florian Klämpfl <florian at freepascal.org>
> wrote:
> >
> > I like the idea of const in generics, but it needs serious cleanup when
> it's working:
>
> Question: should other consts besides integers be allowed? I don’t think
> it makes sense personally to use strings, floats or sets but maybe I’m
> wrong.
>
> Regards,
>         Ryan Joseph
>
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