On 27.01.2013 20:16, Alexander Klenin wrote:
Borland did a world of good for (Object) Pascal, up to Delphi 7.
After that, it went seriously downhill in my opinion; Adding randomly
features without clear direction or regard for the
intent and philosophy of the Pascal language - or so it seems to me.
Like a ship at the mercy of the waves...
I would rephrase slightly -- the features they added are, in
principle, good ones.
However, they hastily (and randomly?) copied them from other languages without a
proper adaptation.
Take, for example, recently added to FPC array constructors:
TIntegerDynArray.Create(1, 2, 3) is much too noisy, and inconsistent
with other syntax
(it resembles a standard constructor, but takes variable-length
argument list, which is impossible for standard constructors).
So I would much prefer
TIntegerDynArray(1, 2, 3), TIntegerDynArray([1, 2, 3]), or maybe even
just [1, 2, 3] if appropriate automatic conversions are defined.
Here we - again - agree. I would have also preferred the latter one (as
this could be used for non named array types as well...). I already
thought about simply implementing it...
Regards,
Sven
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