RE: [DUG]: Just a thought

[Paul Heinz]

Neven wrote: So Therefore if you had the source (to extract the Local Var names) could you combine the source and the CIL to get a reasonable port ie   VB.NET to Delphi.NET If you have the source, It's easier to just build a tree-walking VB to Delphi source converter. The IL is just a flattened version of a parse-tree so you have to 'rediscover' the tree structure which is a heuristic pattern matching exercise. If you already have the source, why bother - just parse it and tree walk the sucker. Also on this subject why is the Delphi.NET component lib VCL not CLX based? Good question. Probably because most Delphi developers are pushing for porting VCL-based code, as opposed to CLX based code. Windows.Forms is pretty damn close to the VCL as well (Anders did design them both after all :-)   I think Anders has probably convinced the Borland team to go with a VCL (hence Windows.Form) inspired rather than CLX (with it's Linux/QTisms) vision of the future.   TTFN,   Paul.