It isn't clear to me what the current status about Generics is:
http://www.freepascal.org/wiki/index.php/Generics
http://www.dummzeuch.de/delphi/object_pascal_templates/english.html
http://community.borland.com/article/0,1410,27603,00.html
Ingenious! I really feel stupid for not thinking of something that
simple like this before :-)
Yup, same respond of mine when first time I read these articles. I never knew
(think?) that Delphi can do something like this. Maybe it looks like a bit hack,
but I can live with that, and the most important is: it works like the way I
wanted. Even C++ compiler does (almost) the same trick. :)
Quote:
Templates are converted by the C++ compiler (actually it is done by the
preprocessor, but who cares about this difference?) into copies of the template
code. This means that with each usage of a template the whole code for this
template will be added to the program again. This could explain why C++ programs
are that large. ;-) But this and other similarly complex processes are
definitely the reason why C++ compilers are that slow (Typical compile times for
a few ten thousand lines of code in Delphi: 5-10 seconds, in C++ several minutes).
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