Re: Highlander2 Beta-blogging: Generics in Delphi for .NET

Marco Caspers wrote:

But i see an issue with the Default function you described.

1). default (note lower case d) is already a reserved word in C#
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The is exactly what the "default" keyword in C# is used for, so how could there be any problem with it?

2). Many ASP.NET developers have a Default page (note the capital D).

Having a Default page, means that there is a Default.pas file.
That will create conflicts. In fact, it could mean that some projects containing a Default.pas
won't compile at all because Default is now defined more than once...


In Chrome, you'd call your class _Default while the page itself can be named WhatEverYouLike.aspx.


From my point of vieuw, this doesn't look like a good naming descision.


Every generic-enabled CLR language, that I have seen so far, used a compiler magic function called "default" to wrap Activator.CreateInstance<T>().
Can't see anything evil in it.
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