On 2015-07-17 15:08, silvioprog wrote: > Using the generics I could do a generic > DAO that could be used by any class, avoiding TPersonDAO, TProductDAO, > TOtherMyEntityDAO and providing a simple and useful CRUD layer: just
I fully appreciate that there could be some uses, but I don't agree it makes the language any better - in the contrary, it makes it much harder to read. Pascal used to pride itself by being an easy to read and understand language [by a human]. As for you DAO example. It comes down to what Michael said - more frameworks need to be created. eg: I use the tiOPF framework for all data persistence and more. I can simply call MyPerson.Save or MyProduct.Save and the framework takes care of everything for me (CRUD, transactions, object ID's etc). I can even switch between database systems, database components or even to a 3-tier system without changing a single line of code in my software. Simply change a compiler define in the Project Settings and recompile my project. All without generics. ;-) Regards, - Graeme - -- fpGUI Toolkit - a cross-platform GUI toolkit using Free Pascal http://fpgui.sourceforge.net/ _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
