On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 12:16 AM, Daniel Gaspary <dgasp...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 12:07 AM, 印場 乃亜 <shir...@galapagossoftware.com> wrote: >> On 2013/03/17, at 11:37, Flávio Etrusco <flavio.etru...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> Daniel, I find this hack as ingenious as atrocious ;-) >>> But thinking about it a bit, when FPC gets generic methods you can >>> make this kind of workable! > > I was thinking about this, not specifically generic methods, but some > new generic resource.
Indeed. What I was thinking would actually need generic functions, bounded generics and generics with type-erasure ;-) So you'd write, say: >>>> type generic TAlias1<T: TObject> = class(TObject) function Alias1: T; end; function<T: TObject> Alias1(Source: T): TAlias1<T>; <<<< And yet you wouldn't be able to name the alias... -Flávio PS. I can't believe Embarcadero went for ":" instead of "=" for declaring bounded/restricted generics :-/ _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal