On 21 Jul 2003 at 18:32, Frank Heckenbach wrote:
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As for the implicit object pointer dereferencing, I'm still waiting to decide whether it's useful to do it with pointers to (existing) objects, or if not a distinct object reference type will be necessary anyway (so it wouldn't make much sense to klduge it now with object pointers).
Please don't do it with plain old BP objects (except perhaps when the Mac defines are turned on). As you said, a reference type will be necessary anyway. Anyone who wants the implicit dereferencing can use the new object type when it is implemented. IMHO the BP object model should be kept intact, since it is now a lowest common denominator for many Pascal compilers.
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