Re: [fpc-devel] Sets > 256

2015-10-15 Thread Frederic Da Vitoria
2015-10-15 16:14 GMT+02:00 Michael Van Canneyt <mich...@freepascal.org>: > > On Thu, 15 Oct 2015, Frederic Da Vitoria wrote: > > 2015-10-15 14:58 GMT+02:00 DaWorm <daw...@gmail.com>: >> >> On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 5:36 AM, Michael Schnell <mschn...@lumino.

Re: [fpc-devel] Sets > 256

2015-10-15 Thread Frederic Da Vitoria
tegers, which don't always mean the same thing, reals which changed format at least once in TP/Delphi's history, strings... Sure, we could stick with 256 elements sets, 16 bits integers, 255 characters strings, but we'd lose a lot of possibilities, wouldn't we? --

Re: [fpc-devel] Pascal Standard, and what we can do.

2015-07-23 Thread Frederic Da Vitoria
2015-07-23 11:45 GMT+02:00 Michael Schnell mschn...@lumino.de: On 07/22/2015 11:21 PM, Frederic Da Vitoria wrote: Declare before use has at least one technical advantage: it allows to make much faster compliers. Declare before use allows to compile in one pass, while compilers for languages

Re: [fpc-devel] Pascal Standard, and what we can do.

2015-07-22 Thread Frederic Da Vitoria
this is not entirely a joke :-) -- Frederic Da Vitoria (davitof) Membre de l'April - « promouvoir et défendre le logiciel libre » - http://www.april.org ___ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin

Re: [fpc-devel] French Translation

2015-04-13 Thread Frederic Da Vitoria
be reviewed by Pierre or someone else. If you need Thank you, you gave me all the necessary information. It only remains to translate. Regards Hello If Stéphane is feeling lonely, I can lend a hand :-) -- Frederic Da Vitoria (davitof) Membre de l'April - « promouvoir et défendre le

Re: [fpc-devel] ThousandSeparator

2014-11-27 Thread Frederic Da Vitoria
settings or to be told explicitly by the developer. Even relying on the system settings may not be enough, because one may need to import data formatted with different national settings from the system's settings. -- Frederic Da Vitoria (davitof) Membre de l'April - « promouvoir et défendre le logiciel

Re: [fpc-devel] ThousandSeparator

2014-11-26 Thread Frederic Da Vitoria
it be? A shift space. In utf8 that takes two bytes. How does that look when hand-written on a cheque? :-) Not much more different than an em dash from an en dash or a baseline dot from a raised dot. -- Frederic Da Vitoria (davitof) Membre de l'April - « promouvoir et défendre le logiciel libre

Re: [fpc-devel] ThousandSeparator

2014-11-26 Thread Frederic Da Vitoria
. -- Frederic Da Vitoria (davitof) Membre de l'April - « promouvoir et défendre le logiciel libre » - http://www.april.org ___ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel

Re: [fpc-devel] ThousandSeparator

2014-11-25 Thread Frederic Da Vitoria
000 € would you? - exact typography rules state that the exact space should be actually be a little thinner than a usual space. But I guess if it is as large, few people will complain. Search expace insécable on wikipedia.fr for more explanations. -- Frederic Da Vitoria (davitof) Membre de l'April

Re: [fpc-devel] Multithreading under DOS (was: [Lazarus] Why development remains constant for msdos?)

2013-09-26 Thread Frederic Da Vitoria
application could be part of an existing set of applications, in which case changing the OS could be impossible. This is a purely theoretical observation, I haven't developed for PC/MS-DOS or been using it for years. -- Frederic Da Vitoria (davitof) Membre de l'April - « promouvoir et défendre le