Adriaan van Os wrote:
Prof A Olowofoyeku (The African Chief) wrote:
What you are describing is almost equal to the "new" style Delphi Classes (actually, this is already over 7 years old, so it is not so new - but I use "new" here to distinguish it from the original BP object model). That type of Delphi compatibility, is, I believe, on the to-do list - but perhaps not a high priority.
There is also the "Object-Oriented Extensions to Pascal" proposal, of the Technical Committee X3J9, see http://www.pascal-central.com/OOE-stds.html.
I have heard that this is quite similar to Delphi's model. (I can only hope that's true, otherwise we might have 4 object models ...)
In passing, I have to mention that I personally prefer the BP object model, see section "E.6.5.1 The Object Model. ... The reference model has the following disadvantages: ...". Still, it is a given fact that traditional Macintosh Pascal compilers implemented the reference model.
We surely won't remove the BP model.
Frank