[fpc-pascal] Feature announcement: implicit generic function specializations

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Thu, 21 Apr 2022, Hairy Pixels via fpc-pascal wrote:

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>> On Apr 21, 2022, at 3:48 AM, Mattias Gaertner via fpc-pascal <fpc-pascal at lists.freepascal.org> wrote:
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>>> Writeln(Apply(@StrFunc, 'Foobar')); // will write FOOBAR
>>> Writeln(Apply(@NegFunc, 42)); // will write -42
>>> end.
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>> Mind boggling. :)
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> This was actually your idea if I remember correctly. :) I think you said even Delphi doesn’t do this so I challenged myself to get it done.

Delphi does it, but only for methods of a class.

AFAIK delphi does not support generic "plain" functions.

Michael.