On 10 Dec 2013, at 15:58, Anthony Walter wrote:
Which is how the FPC mode syntax should have been to begin with IMO.
Can we please not restart that discussion? As has been mentioned several times before, a) the FPC and Delphi syntaxes were developed in parallel, so neither could take the other as an example (well, theoretically Delphi could have taken FPC's approach, since theirs was developed behind closed doors while ours was in the open) b) the FPC syntax favours being explicit/verbose and making things easy for the parser (no ambiguities about the meaning of "<" or ">" anywhere), while Delphi's syntax favours conciseness and similarity to C++
Neither approach is "how it should have been", except for in the eye of the beholder, and arguing either case again is not going to change anything either.
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