Re: [fpc-devel] Semicolon before else

2010-01-29 Thread Doug Chamberlin
On 1/29/2010 4:22 AM, Juha Manninen wrote: Anyway, this is a rather small thing. Most challenges in programming are somewhere else than in the use of a semicolon. This is so, so wrong. It is not a small thing at all. You have redefined the language is a subtle but significant way. I fear if

[fpc-devel] Re: [fpc-pascal] Free Pascal 2.4.0 released

2010-01-01 Thread Doug Chamberlin
Thanks for all the great work that has gone into 2.4.0! For my new year's resolution I'm going to commit to FPC and Lazarus. So, I'm installing the latest in a fresh Ubuntu 9.10 VM and diving in. I'll be pushing all this software hard and will probably be coming here for help. First problem: