In our previous episode, Michael Schnell said: > On 05/12/2015 06:43 PM, Marco van de Voort wrote: > >> Will the fpc library provide the appropriate classes for doing > >> "TParallel.For" as described ? > > That will depend on when you submit that patch :-) > This of course triggers my standard answer to such wording: > > "It does make sense to first decide whether you want to drink tea or > beer before opening either the cupboard or the fridge."
.. which is not appropriate for the question that you asked. > Meaning that - regarding the limited resources - a community should > first discuss exactly what effort (what kind of implementation in > detail) would make sense, before anybody bothers to start coding. No, since the that coder decides what he wants to offer up for inclusion, not the community. > But the (IMHO) abysmal design (much too closely following Delphi) of the > Unicode support shows the negative result of lacking research before > starting coding (see > http://wiki.freepascal.org/not_Delphi_compatible_enhancement_for_Unicode_Support > Yes. That is a good example of a monologue. _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - [email protected] http://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
