<div dir="ltr">The Component Pascal Language Report mentions ANYPTR and ANYREC as predefined identifiers. There is also a procedure PROCEDURE (a: ANYPTR) FINALIZE-, NEW, EMPTY;<div><br></div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Jan 7, 2017 at 1:33 PM, Richard Hable <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:informujo@aon.at" target="_blank">informujo@aon.at</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">Am 2017-01-06 um 17:24 schrieb Lars:<br>
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> Do you mean an object that is empty without any fields in some bizarre<br>
> language? or an object with a bunch of untyped fields, maybe ruby?<br>
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</span>No, I mean a predefined type "Object" which is the implicit base type of<br>
all declared classes; e.g. in the Java programming language<br>
(java.lang.Object).<br>
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It was proposed as an alternative to generics (type parameters) in this<br>
list and apparently has been introduced in at least one extension of the<br>
Oberon programming language.<br>
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Richard<br>
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