On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 11:13 PM, ListMember <listmem...@letterboxes.org> wrote: > This brings me to wonder if it would be possible to pass some constant (or > set of constants, or something similar) to generic routine such that > this/these option(s) would be treated as compiles options within the > implementation of the generic routine.
Ugh, that is definitely not the right solution. Some alternatives: 1) Make sure "is" and "as" work with generic types -- maybe they already are? 2) Since currently the specialization has to be named anyway, write non-generic versions for "inconvenient" types, and use inheritance to factor out common code. 3) Implement partial specialization, in C++ style -- fundamental solution, but perhaps an overkill in the light of the above. -- Alexander S. Klenin _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
