On Mon, 10 Jun 2019, Ryan Joseph wrote:
So where do we stand on this? I have a patch to make it possible allow operator overloads that are members of objects but I hear that objects are legacy types. I disagree of course and claim they are the only way to get inheritance for records since I’m 99% certain FPC is never going to allow record inheritance.
Make that 100% :-)
Personally I have an immediate use for objects but I need them to have operator overloads as members of the object for generics support (this isn’t possible with the stand-alone function operator overloads). Could we at least make this upgrade to objects with a mode switch?
If it is under a mode switch (advancedobjects, similar to advancedrecords), I see no harm in this. I would even say it is logical to add it. I always felt strange that records have it but objects not. (same for properties, BTW)
Your other proposal of changing the memory use is of a different caliber,because it fundamentally changes the way objects are used. The objections against that proposal remain intact.
Michael.
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