Am Mi., 20. Feb. 2019, 08:36 hat Paul van Helden <p...@planetgis.co.za> geschrieben:
> and FPC's goal to remain Delphi-compatible. >>> >>> >>> So are inline variables coming soon? >>> http://blog.marcocantu.com/blog/2018-october-inline-variables-delphi.html >>> >> >> We have already decided internally that this feature is where we draw the >> line. We won't implement it and we are also inclined to say "patches *not* >> welcome" for that. >> >> Regards, >> Sven >> >> > To add a dissenting voice, from someone who has followed FPC development > for more than 10 years and used to be very exited about FPC/Lazarus... > > Sven's statement just about seals it for me. So then FPC's main goal isn't > Delphi compatibility any more? I for one will use inline variable > declarations and therefore say goodbye to FPC. Not to start a pro-vs-con > discussion in this thread, but personally I see only advantages in more > fine-grained control of variable scope. (Plus it has been irritating me for > more than 25 years to go to the top to declare variables [and no, > auto-declarations by the IDE doesn't fix it for me; e.g. if generics are > good, why not duck typing?]). Yes, Embarcadero has done some horrid things > to the language, but I don't see this as one of them. As a big fan of the > Pascal language, I'd rather break compatibility and see the language evolve > than the stoic attitude of the core devs as seen on this list. (And inline > vars doesn't break anything!) If Oxygene was open source and (CPU) native, > I wouldn't even been reading this list... > And we don't agree here. For us inline variables is one of the most horrid if not *the* most horrid thing Embarcadero could have done to Object Pascal. Regards, Sven >
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