Re: About VS C++

Andre Kaufmann wrote:
Another point I like is that every object can be simply converted to a string and therefore simply printed - big plus for debugging. You may ship a debug

That is quite cool. I use the TechInsite tiOPF (Object Persistent Framework) for all my commercial apps, and it has the same functionality. I base most of my objects on the TtiObject class which includes handy features such as the Visitor and Iterator design pattern. I can also do things like MyObject.AsDebugString which then outputs the objects to a string, including a few other handy things like the ObjectState. If MyObject contains other published objects, it will output them as well in a text hierarchy.

Like you said, a excellent feature for debugging. :)

Just for interest sake, Free Pascal has generics implemented as well.

Thanks for the info. I searched about such information on the FPC site, but haven't found anything about generics. And most of the links didn't work, either I had to log into a ftp server or the http server responded with an error.

I don't think generics was included in the 2.0.4 release, but I do know it is in the 2.1.1 development release which will be included in the next 2.2 stable release (soon). I guess as soon as the next stable release is out, the web docs will be updated.


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