> On Sep 16, 2020, at 9:10 PM, J. Gareth Moreton via fpc-devel > <fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org> wrote: > > I figure I could design a dynamic array class, but it will very likely be > incompatible with SetLength no matter what I try to do, and unless I'm > mistaken, it won't have the benefit of automatically gaining an implicit > clean-up blocl if used as a local variable unless there's an automatic > reference counting feature that I'm not aware of.
There are operators to do this now but they're only for records (https://wiki.freepascal.org/management_operators). You can easily make a reference counted type now but as I mentioned that are some drawbacks, some of which I'd like to correct if the compiler team allowed it. Regards, Ryan Joseph _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org https://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
