Re: Delphi 2008 (Tiburon) discussion

"Wayne Niddery [TeamB]" wrote
Bob Dawson wrote:

I was thinking of capitalizing on generics more. Certainly we could do
better than TCollection/TCollectionItem

As a general container class I've never got into using these, I've always
just used TList/TObjectList with my own various Item classes as needed.

I pretty much ignore TCollection as well--too many compromises in demanding
held item descent from TCollectionItem.

But rather than simple lists I'm generally I'm more interested in
Dictionaries. TStringList or a parallel TIntegerList are my normal
workhorses. In addition to a totally genericised TDictionary<Key, Value>
class I'd like Delphi to include string key and largeInt key versions.
There's no reason to force a key to always be a reference type when in
practice nearly all dictionaries are string or integer ordered. For a full
array we could have

TDictionary<Key : TClass; Value : TClass>
plus
TStringDictionary<Value : TClass>
TInt64Dictionary<Value : TClass>
TGUIDDictionary<Value : TClass>

bobD


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