In our previous episode, Reinier Olislagers said: > > > > Yes, but since the routine probably has low utilisation I choose for > > structuring all conversion routines all the same. > I would rather choose for maintaining backward compatiblity, the *de > facto behaviour* (return 0 on invalid values) as it is quite sensible > for this kind of numbers.
It is non-orthogonal. > > > Moreover I don't think that first attempts should fixate interfaces > > and behaviour forever. > It's quite strange though that Delphi compatibility is quite insistently > adhered to (BTW a good decision IMO). Because that has an use. The internal FPC compatability, specially in the more fringe areas like this, service no use than fattening maillist archives IMHO. _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
