[lazarus] classesh.inc change required

[vital at videotron.ca]

At 20:18 99-12-20 -0500, you wrote:
>Shane Miller wrote:
>> 
>> The first thing I see is the create method in Delphi doesn't require
>> any parameters......(I'm in delphi 5 BTW)
>
>OK. Your correct. I did write it so that you could pass it a value to
>set the size of the bits required. I suppose it could be removed.
>Originally I wrote it as an extra independent class which MVC later
>incorporated into the standard TBits class. Being able to pass the
>initial value of the array required seems to be more efficient to me
>than the way Borland did it.
>
>So this begs the question. Even if something can be done better and more
>logically are we going to always write it to match Delphi?
>
>Then my next question is, which VCL do we match? In this case TBits is
>the same since at least Delphi 3 (as far back as I checked) but what if
>it was different from 3 to 5? Which version do we emulate?
>
>I have no problem removing the create parameter in the TBits class it
>has just brought up the issues is all.
>
>I have asked this before. Are we building a total Delphi clone or are we
>building a Delphi like tool?
>
>Opinions.
>


IMHO, we can get the best of both world. Just make two create methode with
overloading. That keep the way it is and be compatible with actual Delphi!

Vital Tremblay
vital at videotron.ca