Re: "Vector" Equivalent

In article <44ebc9da@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Erick Sasse says...
Jolyon Smith wrote:

Hope you don't mind, I've logged this in QC - #33013

There is a popular QC report that addresses the same issue.
Please, vote for it:

What I've suggested, inspired by Loren, is not generics - at leat I
don't think so. afaics it addresses a similar need that generics can
also be used for, but can also be used where generics cannot help so
easily.

e.g. if I have a TCustomListView derived class that implements it's own
TListItem type, using my suggestion I can provide an Items property that
reflects that derived list item class without having to implement
property setter/getters that do nothing but act as a type casting
mechanism:

TMySuperList = class(TCustomListView)
:
other super list declarations and stuff
:
public
property Items[Index: Integer]: TListItem as TMySuperDuperListItem;
end;


The list/object list example I used could be handled by generics, but
I'm not sure that the list view case could.

And in the absence of generics for Win32/64, this would at least provide
some relief (and from where I'm sitting it looks to me like this should
be an absolute doddle to implement).

:)


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Jolyon Smith
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