[DUG] Well ... ??

[Paul Heinz]

David wrote: 

> 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.

I'm sure they'll use the same syntax for Win32. Why write two parser
frontends when one will do :-) And in fact, they can largely share most
of the instantiation backends as well if the factor the design properly
as generics instantiation is largely a semantic/syntactic middle-end
(i.e. pre-codegen) phase.

> 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).

Yeah. The IDE improvements got us from Delphi 7 up to BDS 2006. But
Delphi 2007 is somewhat underwhelming for us but I'm sure it has value
for others. Tiburon (or whatever they're calling it) with Win32 generics
will move us up. I will finally be able to retire my external Delphi
generics implementation.

TTFN,
  Paul.

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