[WayBack] What went wrong with the IT industry? Well, maybe the same as what happened in other industries that deal with complexity. We maybe beat ourselves up to… – James Coplien – Google+ is on my list of videos to watch.
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Archive for September 12th, 2019
What went wrong with the IT industry? Some interesting thoughts on other industries coping with complexity…
Posted by jpluimers on 2019/09/12
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Delphi / Stefan Glienke: I looked into IntroSort … and the Microsoft implementation … Here is my current implementation
Posted by jpluimers on 2019/09/12
For my link archive: [WayBack] Delphi / Stefan Glienke: I looked into IntroSort … and the Microsoft implementation … Here is my current implementation
[WayBack] Delphi IntroSort by Stefan Glienke
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https://bitbucket.org/snippets/sglienke/64LG6b/introsort
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C# (and presumably Delphi): why parameterless record constructors are absent
Posted by jpluimers on 2019/09/12
For my link archive.
Full text at: [WayBack] … why the Delphi language does not allow parameterless constructors… – David Heffernan – Google+
Abstract:
+Stefan Glienke deleted his post about parameterless record constructors, presumably due to all the off topic comments.
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.net at CLR level does allow parameterless constructors on structs. But the C# language bans them: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/saxz13w4.aspx
Jon Skeet posted an answer on SO way back in 2008 on this topic: http://stackoverflow.com/a/333840/ From that answer:
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The CLR allows value types to have parameterless constructors, but C# doesn’t. I believe this is because it would introduce an expectation that the constructor would be called when it wouldn’t. For instance, consider this:MyStruct[] foo = new MyStruct[1000];
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—-My guess is that Embarcadero decided to ban parameterless constructors on Delphi records for the same reason. Or perhaps they just copied the rules from C# without realising that the CLR supported parameterless struct constructors.
References:
- [WayBack] Why can’t I define a default constructor for a struct in .NET?
- [WayBack] Structs (C# Programming Guide)
- [WayBack] Restore requirement for struct constructors to always have formal parameters. #1029
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