It would appear that the set of win32 binaries that Peter installed in the
install/binw32 directory of cvs on 2/7 contains a back-level version of a
couple programs, as compared to the versions available from the binary
download
(1.9.6 released 1/1/2005). Specifically, the download
DrDiettrich wrote:
My main gripes with Delphi/pascal is its additional verbosity and
somewhat tedious coding practices which seem superfluous in some cases.
Now I dont mind typing a bit extra to make code cleaner and more legible
but I have a few ideas which would reduce needless typing and
On Thu, 24 Feb 2005, Jamie McCracken wrote:
It might be better to do this in an IDE and get it to add the try..finally
crap.
EG if I say use the @ symbol to indicate a variable should be auto created
and destroyed then I could have :
var st@, st2@ : tstringlist;
begin
st.add('some text');
On 24 feb 2005, at 13:51, Jamie McCracken wrote:
IMO the best solution for (almost) all of your problems were garbage
collection. GC is part of Oberon, and it would fit into .NET/DotGNU as
well.
GC is very inefficient with memory and current implementations tend to
cost a lot performance wise
I do need an IDE anyhow for container based GTK2/Gnome2/Glade apps so
maybe I ought to start writing one that implements this.
Why don't you see if you can get this implemented as an add-on in
Lazarus ? You get the rest of the IDE for free.
In the short term yes (although I use delphi 5 under
Jonas Maebe wrote:
On 24 feb 2005, at 13:51, Jamie McCracken wrote:
IMO the best solution for (almost) all of your problems were garbage
collection. GC is part of Oberon, and it would fit into .NET/DotGNU as
well.
GC is very inefficient with memory and current implementations tend to
cost a lot
