On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 6:15 AM, Jonas Maebe <jonas.ma...@elis.ugent.be> wrote: > > Generics were developed in parallel in FPC and in Delphi, and both came up > with a different syntax. > The incompatibility was there from the start, it wasn't created afterwards.
Jonas, I am not trying to be a jerk or anything, but yes, I assure you I read your replies. I say this because you are repeating the same logic as if I hadn't heard it before. For your benefit I'll include my a quote myself from last time we went down this path. Hopefully we can move past the "who did what when" discussion, and take up "what makes more sense, and should we try to be compatible" discussion. Quoting myself from a recent discussion: One thing I've noticed about the FPC community which has me a somewhat apprehensive is a bit of a particular attitude I've picked up on. A few times now I've read comments by or had conversations with people in the FPC community who have explained incompatibilities away using the phrase: "FreePascal did this before something else so we shouldn't change" Forgetting the whole argument about who was actually first, I have to ask what difference does it make? Why does doing something first make it written in stone. It seems a bit childish to say, "No way, I way here first, I won't budge. You move." Really, that attitude is quite the turn off. There there these incompatibilities causing me to avoid language features. I'd like to use them but just won't (Operator overloading and generics come to mind), mostly because I really don't want to have ifdefs all over the place. In my opinion, there is an incompatibility. Fix it. _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
