Florian Klaempfl schrieb:
I'm still dreaming of a FreeWirth (though admitted, M2 is so close (both
parsing, modulesystem and language type) that one could regard it as a
dialect.
Aren't you against a e.g. .Net backend because it requires a completely
different runtime :)? I think the same applies to M2 etc. as well?
IMO we could separate the language itself (syntax) from the RTL (semantics).
At least I can imagine the use of a different syntax at the procedure
body (block, statement...) level, like already implemented for assembly
language blocks. The requirement of *full* M2, Oberon or P# <g>
compatibility IMO is very low, due to the few existing
(public/commercial) projects in these languages.
We also could make FPC an playground for language designers, which could
implement their own languages in dedicated front-ends, as long as they
use the existing FPC system library, tree nodes and other data
structures, as far as these are hard-coded in the compiler, optimizer
and code generators.
In contrast the implementation of parallel RTLs may be a bad idea, we
already have enough problems with platforms and widgetsets...
DoDi
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