On Thu, 02 Jun 2005 15:31:51 +0100 Jamie McCracken <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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. Please show me a piece of code where they are "in the way". Code bloat? They don't cost anything in the executable. > >>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 :( Have you done maintenance yet of other people's code ? > 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. They are not pointless to me: they indicate clear structure, but we may simply differ in opinion here. > > 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? In C++: TStringList strlist; strlist = new TStringList; How is that shorter ? Micha _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
