Am 17.02.19 um 02:42 schrieb Neil Graham:
On 17/02/19 10:37 AM, Ralf Quint wrote:
On 2/14/2019 9:28 PM, James via fpc-devel wrote:
I'm interested in starting (or joining) a discussion on the next
(*non* backwards compatible) version of FPC. Instead of being
classically object oriented, there is merit in examining a model with
ad-hoc polymorphism like Rust.
I am, like apparently many others, NOT interested in such shenanigans.
Either program in Pascal or program in Rust.
Adding newfangled gadgets and gizmos might be all fine and dandy, but
don't force it down the throat of everyone as a must. I am not going
to throw away 40 years of libraries and snippets away and start from
scratch, just so some folks can claim to run with the in-crowd. I got
work to do...
I think for the most part, if any clean slate is needed for FPC it is
for the Libraries and not the language. A Class library that was built
to support the language as it currently stands rather than collecting
layers of legacy. TThing TFPThing TFPGThing layers etc.
Also old libraries are still used by people so they cannot be cut down.
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