* Posts by Barry Kelly

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Born Again Delphi

Barry Kelly

Garbage collection + sundries

Verity, you ask my opinion? I think GC is a good thing, but if customers don't want it, then customers won't have said feature forced upon them. They do pay the bills, after all.

Most likely, precise collecting GC will be made possible through enhanced RTTI, but not enabled by default and very probably even without a collector in the box.

As to your other points, I don't want to speculate, and in any case this isn't the right forum for hashing out those kinds of decisions. I do want to stress, however, that whatever we do, we have backward compatibility with existing code uppermost in our minds. Creating a clean separation between a spruced up language and bringing along all the existing code is at least half the work involved.