On Fri, 17 Jul 2015, silvioprog wrote:
On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 11:24 AM, Graeme Geldenhuys <
mailingli...@geldenhuys.co.uk> wrote:
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].
I agree with Michael too, but a nice thing to allow other programmers to
make new libraries could be adding new features in the language, making it
more productive.
Where is the proof that these new features make you more productive ?
I created a code generator that creates boilerplate classes and associated unit
test cases.
All with in essence D7 style code, ready to go.
I don't think that generics would do anything to improve the situation.
I could gain a few lines because I could use a generic list&enumerator,
but that's it.
I'm working in a new lib and I'm having several problems
to keep compatibility betten FPC and Delphi, so I'm using a lot of IFDEFs,
even using mode delphi.
To improve this situation I advocate NOT yet to spend effort on new
language modes, but first get the Delphi compatibility to a decent level.
I think that this will do more to help productivity than new modes.
After that, we can still see about new modes. I'm not arguing about that.
Michael.
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