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#1 2018-01-20 22:23:41
Pascal Generics are great or we are just following other languages?
I'm consider a old-school programmer.
Nowadays we see a lot of use of generics. I can't see a Java code that doesn't have generics.
My question is: We really need generics or we are just following other languages like Java or C#?
For me, most code that use generics are much more confuse. I think there is an abuse of generics.
We can live without them? What do you think?
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#2 2018-01-21 09:04:17
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Re: Pascal Generics are great or we are just following other languages?
Yes, we can live without generics, but life is much better with it, especially with a collection library provided by Spring4d 
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#3 2018-01-21 09:27:52
Re: Pascal Generics are great or we are just following other languages?
Most of the time you don't need generics.
I agree with https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart_P … f_Generics
With FPC you have now good generics support.
Especially with maciej new collection units.
But they tend to bloat the executable size.
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