Hi, though not a fpc developer, I strongly want to support Michaels opinion (not specifically addressing this feature).
For me Pascal is the language of choice because of its readability and strictness and simple / clean syntax. IMO C++ actually evolved C in exactly this direction. Therefore it would be a great mistake to bloat / fragment Pascal with redundant "features" and go exactly the other way round. IHMO even Delphi does "too much of a 'good' thing" in evolving the language - and the best example how NOT to do it - is Perl, indeed. Btw. from the users point of view - there are more urgent things to do. [NOTE that's NOT a hidden complaint/hint!]. d.l.i.w P.S.: I got to know Pascal with Turbo Pascal (in fact I'm younger than you might think :) )... ... but - honestly - I still don't understand why Borland introduced classes when there are objects, what the heck are advanced records for... etc. :) Ok, many features are really useful: generics, properties... _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
