In our previous episode, ik said: > I was going over the wiki and looked at > http://wiki.freepascal.org/FPC_New_Features_Trunk . > It looks like some of the features here, actually breaks Pascal, and > create something like Jascal or something, but it's not Pascal in > spirit. > For example 1000.to_string ?! I have it on Ruby and Java, but it's not > Pascal syntax. > Same goes for array constructors.
We already have had this discussion for VB (D4/COM extensions), .NET etc. Yes Delphi will copy everything what is popular in a desperate attempt to increase its appeal. > I actually starting to ask the same questions of Graeme, do we really > want to follow Delphi instead of creating a more Pascal like dialect ? > FPC is not clean either. Constructs like case string of remind of basic and the proposed tuple support is not exactly hardcore imperative languges (let alone Pascal) either. _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
