Bram Kuijvenhoven wrote:
Micha Nelissen wrote:
Bram Kuijvenhoven wrote:
Florian Klaempfl wrote:
- we'll use a syntax as close as possible to Chrome, e.g.
type
TList<T> = class
...
end;
I greatly favor this syntaxis above the generic-modifier. It will
look at a lot more familiar to most programmers (due to e.g. C++ and
Java),
"Must look familiar" programmers should be fired.
Of course, the implementation of generics in Pascal should not depend
solely on how it is implemented in other languages. I should in the
first place fit into Pascal.
Since it is already decided that it would be <> I didn't mix into the
discussion anymore. However, I'll make a comment on this.
Does <> for generics fit into Pascal? Well, we use [] for array
indexing, and () for parameter passing to procedures/functions/methods.
So why not use <> for passing parameters to generic types? And, similar
to the case of function calls and array indexing, these <> could follow
the type identifier directly.
Params are passed to a procedure define like
procedure MyProc(param, param, ..)
Arrays are declared like
A: array[0..9] of ...
And generics.... they are soly defined by the fact that a type has <> in it.
That is imo inconsequent.
Marc
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