hi everyone! i have a question regarding the remov...
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ulrikguenther
04/01/2020, 2:38 PMhi everyone! i have a question regarding the removal of type parameters from objects in 1.4: what is the reasoning there, and what is the suggested replacement?
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araqnid
04/01/2020, 5:08 PMNo type parameters on objects? On
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ulrikguenther
04/02/2020, 1:48 PMWell, they were deprecated in 1.3, and removed now with 1.4-M1. We used them for creating instances of interfaces with type parameters in line. Maybe that code should just be moved to a class, then...
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louiscad
04/02/2020, 1:53 PMYou can just have the member functions of the object have type parameters.
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ulrikguenther
04/02/2020, 5:50 PM@louiscad that is a good idea, but if the object needs to inherit from an interface with type parameters, that is unfortunately not sufficient
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louiscad
04/02/2020, 7:12 PMAn object can still inherit an interface with typed parameters so long you specify the type parameter.
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ulrikguenther
04/02/2020, 7:17 PMWhat do you mean specifically? I can specialise the generic type parameter, but that doesn't help here
ulrikguenther
04/06/2020, 12:23 PMI have solved this now btw by factoring out several classes instead of creating them in-line with object