On Wed, 27 Jan 2016, Maciej Izak wrote:
2016-01-27 12:07 GMT+01:00 Michael Van Canneyt <mich...@freepascal.org>:
On Wed, 27 Jan 2016, Juha Manninen wrote:
Yes, that is about your Generics.Collections compatibility.
I was more interested why fcl-stl is not Delphi compatible while many
other libraries provided by FPC project are.
It was donated by someone early on during the implementation of generics.
I don't think the comparable Delphi units existed at the time. I think the
implementation was more based on C++ templates/generics than on comparable
C# or Delphi functionality (hence the name stl: Standard Template Library).
Delphi Generics.Collections exist since Delphi 2009. fpc-stl was introduced
around 2012
It appeared in FPC svn only in 2011. But fcl-stl was around earlier than that.
The idea was not Delphi compatibility. We want delphi compatibility, but
at the same time don't want to discourage "competing" or "complimentary"
contributions.
Michael.
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