[Lazarus] object type: strange behaviour
Marco van de Voort
marcov at stack.nl
Mon Oct 25 09:19:05 CEST 2010
On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 09:14:41AM +0200, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
> > I think they didn't pick the object type because it also supports VMTs, a
> > feature that complicates resolving methods, and considerably complicating
> > those features. TP Tobject can magically gain a VMT when a virtual method
> > is used.
>
> Interesting thought, thanks Marco.
In the same sense, I wouldn't try to use objects with generics either :)
It will raise a gigantic amount of bugs, for no particular reason. Let it be
legacy.
Btw, I noticed the ansistring-in-tobject issue when I tried to update turbo
vision to ansistring.
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