[fpc-pascal] Traits Proposal

[Marco van de Voort]

Op 2021-02-15 om 18:08 schreef Ryan Joseph via fpc-pascal:
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>> As I understand, this is not a method hiding, but just to tell the
>> compiler which method to implement the interface—the interface could
>> have method names which are very very common to use and this syntax
>> allows us to "rename" those methods without changing the original
>> names that the class might have.
> yeah you may be right, that the interface object itself won't be hookup correctly if this doesn't happen. Seems strange you have 2 declarations for the same method though.
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>    procedure IMyIntf.Test2 = MyTest2;
>    propcedure MyTest2;
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> instead of something like:
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>    propcedure MyTest2 override  IMyIntf.Test2;
The first syntax allows to for methods to be declared in the ancestor too.