> On Feb 16, 2021, at 2:43 PM, Sven Barth via fpc-pascal > <fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org> wrote: > > FPC currently does not yet support class types not to mention records and > objects which is what I had mentioned earlier already.
Yes I see this on https://freepascal.org/docs-html/ref/refse47.html. Why isn't this supported? I guess as part of this proposal we need to implement this feature as well? I'm not familiar with this area of the language so I'm not sure what this entails. > >> It's a strange syntax compared to anything else we allow in classes and the >> boiler plate is really adding up now. "procedure Draw" is going to be in 4 >> lines now! >> >> It would be nicer if they made this into one line so we don't have yet >> another set of duplicate method signatures, i.e.: >> >> procedure Draw as ICircle.Draw; > > I can't shake the feeling that all you complain about is writing even a > little bit too much. Pascal is *not* about using as less code as possible, > but to be as correct as possible and the syntax of interface delegation > allows exactly that. Being too verbose is clunky in my opinion. That method resolution syntax is just kind of an odd addition for classes to my eyes. "procedure Type.Name = Name;" doesn't have any precedence inside classes/records so it stands out. Regards, Ryan Joseph _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org https://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
