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mdbs99

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From: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Registered: 2018-01-20

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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?

edwinsn

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Registered: 2010-07-02

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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

Last edited by edwinsn (2018-01-21 09:04:34)

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ab

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From: France

Registered: 2010-06-21

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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.