[DUG] Well ... ??

[David Brennan]

Angle bracket syntax is what we were demoed in the Highlander beta. That was
.NET only, generics don't come to Win32 until the next release which is
early 2008.

Incidentally that release (the early 2008 one with generics) will be the
magic silver bullet which will inspire us to upgrade from Delphi 5 to the
latest Delphi (presumably 2008).

David.



-----Original Message-----
From: delphi-bounces at delphi.org.nz [mailto:delphi-bounces at delphi.org.nz] On
Behalf Of Paul Heinz
Sent: Friday, 17 August 2007 5:18 p.m.
To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List
Subject: RE: [DUG] Well ... ??

David Brennan wrote:
> DBX - good
> BDE - bad
> DBX + BDE - OK temporarily
> BlackfishSQL - good but .NET/Java only
> Generics - very good

Did they commit to a final syntax for generics and if so, what syntax
are they using?

Essentially, there seems to be the C++/C# inspired synax with bare
Type<Param> angle bracket syntax (which Chrome also uses) and the
somewhat quirkier but friendlier to the parser (and some argue closer to
the 'spirit' of Pascal) FreePascal style with generic and specialise as
new keywords.

Personally, I think I prefer the bare angle brackets and I suspect
CodeGear might as well for general market familiarity. I'm sure
FreePascal will soon sport a Delphi compatibilty mode making the
keywords optional anyways :-)

TTFN,
  Paul.

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