In our previous episode, J?rgen Hestermann said: > > In > > general we try to be Delphi compatible as much as time and > > backward compatibility permits. > > I hate it if bugs or illogical things are copied from Delphi. It may be > the case that Delphi vanishes one day. Then we still would have all these > bugs in FPC/Lazarus cast in stone forever. I think we should not slavish > copy whatever Delphi does. Even if migration is a bit more work, the > result of a cleaner and more logical code justifies it.
I don't agree in general. It makes sharing code (not migration) very hard. However in this case, there is much less installed base on Delphi, since most dlls simply use stdcall _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
