Thank you for your responses. On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 08:23, Graeme Geldenhuys <graemeg.li...@gmail.com> wrote: > Daniël Mantione wrote: >> >> Indeed, it would be undesired to accept that semicolon. What makes me >> uncomfortable is that he went to the trouble of modifying the compiler for >> it. We should encourage that. > > > I know, it is impressive that somebody went through all that trouble in > modifying the compiler, but I think it would be wise for anybody in the > future, to first mention your issues and ideas here, before simply > implementing it.
Agree. My primary intention was not to change official language, but to try to make a change which will help me in my work. I just shared it with others. Note that I fully understand how serious this change is. First, it moves away FPC from the land of Separator to the land of Terminators. Second, the grammar/parser is not LL(1) anymore (which is enough to reject this change in the first place). Third (as Daniel said), it requires change of compiler itself (else->otherwise). And so on, and so on... So, if this patch is useful to someone, then it's great; else (if it's not), great again ;-) _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
