Daniël Mantione schreef:
Op Mon, 14 Aug 2006, schreef Graeme Geldenhuys:
On 8/14/06, Peter Vreman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Is this a feature or a FPC bug? FPC allows the $IF to be closed
with
the $ENDIF as well as the $IFEND. This is not Delphi compatible.
The closing tag for $IF is $IFEND
The closing tag for $IFDEF is $ENDIF
As I read it, $IF/$IFEND was added to Delphi in Delphi 6. FPC supports
this construction much longer, I think since the 0.9.x series. The FPC way
has always been to use $ENDIF and FPC will of course not break
compatibility with itself. Go ask Borland why they wanted to be FPC
incompatible :)
Feature.
Maybe this should be controlled by the compiler mode? Delphi vs
ObjFPC. Or should we leave it up to the developer to remember which
one to use when writing code to be compiled with Delphi and FPC?
You could make it dependent on the compiler mode, but I don't see the
point, any Delphi code will still compile.
You miss the point: Delphi compatibility mode is for people who develop for FPC, but
want to compile occasionally in Delphi. In the current situation they are not aware
of this weakness of Delphi (no support of $ENDIF for $IF), until they compile in
Delphi. But maybe Graeme should make a Delphi feature request too (and see which is
honoured first) :-)
Vincent
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