On Fri, 25 May 2018, Ryan Joseph wrote:
On May 25, 2018, at 1:37 AM, Sven Barth via fpc-pascal <fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org> wrote: This is currently not supported. And to avoid backwards compatibility problems with existing operator overloads you'd probably need to convert it to a dynamic array first: === code begin === a += ['foo']; === code end ===What is that doing being the scenes? If it’s creating a whole new array and appending it then it’s probably pretty inefficient and hopefully can be optimized away. Since dynamic array helpers work could you expose a function that adds an element to the array (an grows it if needed) so we could make helpers for it? Pushing a value to an array is perhaps the most common function used for lists so it makes sense to get that right imo.
I think the above is "right", and completely equivalent to sets, which are in some ways like an array: a "collection" of same typed values. To add an element to a set you also do MySet:=MySet+[aValue]; That said, sets do have Include(MySet,AValue); to include a single value. Maybe this syntax can be extended to dynamic arrays. Michael.
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