Micha Nelissen wrote:
I don't understand, why are these forward declarations so evil ?
More code bloat, more typing and they get in the way. They dont give me
anything useful in return.
Garbage collection is largely no issue when using the Owner concept in
TComponent, using TObjectList, etc.
True and thats why I suggested ref counting Tobjects only so that no
manual memory management is required. I tend to make heavy use of TList,
Tstringlist and TFilestream objects so I cant do everything with
tcomponents alas.
and a richer framework has made them switch to the dark side. We need
to fight back!
Ok, but richer framework simply needs people adding packages and useful units
to freepascal :-).
Python is hard to read, especially if multiple blocks are closed at
once, then it's hard to see what block a line belongs to (because of
missing 'end' or '}').
not true because of the indenting (use bigger indents!). Im not saying
Bigger indents cause the text to go too wide. More functions also help, I agree.
python is great I just envy *some* of its shorter syntax and it would
Ok, some, but not this one ?
Well typing begin..end all over the place isn't a lot of fun :(
Especially as Im gonna have to indent them as well just to make em
readable. So yeah it seems they are more pointless syntax bloat.
I also don't like the magic. For example the 'mystrings.create;'
example you mentioned, it's *totally* not consistent with regular
syntax: mystrings.create means call "TStringList.Create" on the
object pointed to by the mystrings variable.
Well pascal in the only mainstream langugae that does that - I dont
see the pont and it aint magic.
Sorry, the only language that does what ?
var strlist : TStringlist;
strlist := Tstringlist.create;
I know strlist is a Tstringlist, the compiler knows it too as I have
declared it so why do I have to spell it out in the creation process?
jamie.
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