On Mon, 10 Jun 2019, Florian Klämpfl wrote:
Am 10.06.2019 um 09:14 schrieb Michael Van Canneyt:
Now, there exists an exception to this rule, introduced by Borland: open array
parameters.
Well, open strings and open arrays cannot be considered as real types imo (you
cannot declare anything else than a
parameter as open array/string) but more a parameter passing convention similar
to call by reference parameters which
could also be considered as a type definition then (C++ has reference types
after all).
The main thing is that there is a solid reason for the current behaviour,
and better arguments than 'productivity' must be provided.
I'm not a big fan of generics, anonymous functions and many other recent
language additions, but at least those actually add new functionality to the
language.
Michael.
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