13 Jun
2006
13 Jun
'06
6:23 p.m.
Frank Heckenbach wrote:
Forwarded from marcov@stack.nl (Marco van de Voort):
A slight advantage of the delphi method is that it requires dirty syntax to do dirty things. That could be seen as a deterrent.
As a general principle, I agree -- though some (optional) warnings would also be fine. However, AIUI, what Markus want to do isn't actually dirty stuff, i.e. all type-safe.
Right. To be precise, I believe that something I'm already doing as a dirty hack might as well (or even better) be achieved in a type-safe way, and I would prefer to do so.