On Sat, Jan 26, 2013 at 9:50 AM, Marco van de Voort <mar...@stack.nl> wrote: >> Whatever the particular syntax, I do agree that the decision to use >> angular brackets >> was unnecessarily copied from C++ -- round ones (or, at least, square >> ones) would be much better. > > Delphi got its generics from .NET. The .NET compiler got it one version > earlier. (D2007, native D2009) > > Probably the main reason for generics was access the 2.0 framework which was > new (and used generics) going from D2006 to D2007
Quite probably, but that is still no reason for angular brackets :) -- Alexander S. Klenin _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel