Am 22.04.2011 11:18, schrieb Florian Klämpfl: > Am 22.04.2011 00:08, schrieb Jonas Maebe: >> >> On 21 Apr 2011, at 23:26, Sven Barth wrote: >> >>> On 21.04.2011 21:45, Michael Van Canneyt wrote: >>>> Threefold: a) The compiler's handling of generics is still beta >>>> code in my opinion. As far as I know, the original problem I >>>> reported when writing the docs for them is still not solved. >>> >>> May I ask out of curiosity which problem you mean? >> >> The main problem with generics as they are implemented in FPC, is >> that they are basically macros. That means if you use a type >> "tsomerecord" in a generic implementation, and in a unit in which the >> generic is specialised another type with that name is visible, this >> other type will suddenly be used. The same goes for functions and >> every other identifier, because it's a token record/replay >> mechanism. > > No. The symtablestack state is restore. But this leads to other problems > like overloaded operators for the current type being ignored.
See http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=15480 _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal