OOP_(re)

Fri, 30 May 1997 15:41:58 +0200 (MET DST)

According to Pierre Phaneuf:
> 
> I was thinking that it would be nice to have this in GPC only because
> Delphi had it, without even thinking *how* it could be useful.

Compatibility to other widely-used compilers and/or well-defined standards
is always desireable as long as it doesn't take away too much time from
more important tasks.

> Now that I
> spent some thoughts on this, it's no longer such a good feature to have...
> Unnecessary bloat IMHO...

If such a feature has disadvantages, it must be optional, e.g.
`--store-object-names', and switched ON in Delphi compatibility mode.

> > This would indeed be a much better way than Borland's "abtract method" that
> > causes a runtime error (again, IMHO, a failure by Borland)!
> 
> Yes, exactly! So I could remove the "Abstract" method (did you receive my
> CLASSES.PAS?) from TObject.

Not from `objects.pas' in BPcompat, but from your more general class library.

Greetings,

    Peter

  Dipl.-Phys. Peter Gerwinski, Essen, Germany, free physicist and programmer
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