According to Pierre Phaneuf:
I was thinking that it would be nice to have this in GPC only because Delphi had it, without even thinking *how* it could be useful.
Compatibility to other widely-used compilers and/or well-defined standards is always desireable as long as it doesn't take away too much time from more important tasks.
Now that I spent some thoughts on this, it's no longer such a good feature to have... Unnecessary bloat IMHO...
If such a feature has disadvantages, it must be optional, e.g. `--store-object-names', and switched ON in Delphi compatibility mode.
This would indeed be a much better way than Borland's "abtract method" that causes a runtime error (again, IMHO, a failure by Borland)!
Yes, exactly! So I could remove the "Abstract" method (did you receive my CLASSES.PAS?) from TObject.
Not from `objects.pas' in BPcompat, but from your more general class library.
Greetings,
Peter
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On Fri, 30 May 1997, Peter Gerwinski wrote:
Yes, exactly! So I could remove the "Abstract" method (did you receive my CLASSES.PAS?) from TObject.
Not from `objects.pas' in BPcompat, but from your more general class library.
Of course!
Pierre Phaneuf
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