2015-10-15 16:14 GMT+02:00 Michael Van Canneyt <[email protected]>:
> > On Thu, 15 Oct 2015, Frederic Da Vitoria wrote: > > 2015-10-15 14:58 GMT+02:00 DaWorm <[email protected]>: >> >> On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 5:36 AM, Michael Schnell <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> >>> (Not hitchhiking the other thread...) >>>> >>>> On 13/10/15 19:59, Mohsen wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>>> Pascal sets can only contain values/enumerations whose ordinal value is >>>>> <= 255. >>>>> >>>>> As currently new language features are discussed I would vote to drop >>>> (or >>>> relax to some K ) this limitation. This would not break any existing >>>> code. >>>> >>>> >>>> What if someone is storing a set in a file, or a stream? Old version >>> saves it, new version reads it, and all of the sudden the data isn't in >>> the >>> same format. >>> >>> >> Yes, this would be a problem. But wouldn't this be an acceptable price for >> the improvement? >> > > No, it is not that simple. Lazarus would stop working completely. > Would you care to explain? -- Frederic Da Vitoria (davitof) Membre de l'April - « promouvoir et défendre le logiciel libre » - http://www.april.org
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