On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 12:27 AM, Sven Barth <pascaldra...@googlemail.com> wrote: > I don't know why the one who first implemented them chose them, but now the > reason is backwards compatibility. > > Please note that I wouldn't have choosen round brackets either (potential > conflicts with type casting)
Is not "specialize" keyword there to prevent exactly this? > specialize SomeType with (Something) I would like to propose a modification to one of the principles we brought up in this thread: "prefer keywords to punctuation ... but not to the point of becoming COBOL" :) -- Alexander S. Klenin _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel