Re: [fpc-devel] arm-embedded apps crash in exception handler initialization because heapmanager is not initialized

2013-03-03 Thread Florian Klämpfl
Am 02.03.2013 23:17, schrieb Michael Ring: I am not sure if I have hit work in progress code here my arm-embedded app crashes during initialization, the reason is that now exceptions are part of the rtl but there is no properly initialized heapmanager: Procedure InitExceptions; {

Re: [fpc-devel] Comparison FPC 2.6.2 - Delphi 7

2013-03-03 Thread Daniël Mantione
Op Sun, 3 Mar 2013, schreef Martin Schreiber: BTW, a significant percentage of the time is waiting for FPC compiling because FPC normally crashes without -B. I think you should focus your efforts on getting those bugs fixed, such as by submitting bug reports that allow reproduction of the

Re: [fpc-devel] Comparison FPC 2.6.2 - Delphi 7

2013-03-03 Thread Martin Schreiber
On Sunday 03 March 2013 10:04:54 Daniël Mantione wrote: Op Sun, 3 Mar 2013, schreef Martin Schreiber: BTW, a significant percentage of the time is waiting for FPC compiling because FPC normally crashes without -B. I think you should focus your efforts on getting those bugs fixed, such as

Re: [fpc-devel] Comparison FPC 2.6.2 - Delphi 7

2013-03-03 Thread Florian Klämpfl
Am 03.03.2013 10:46, schrieb Martin Schreiber: On Sunday 03 March 2013 10:04:54 Daniël Mantione wrote: Op Sun, 3 Mar 2013, schreef Martin Schreiber: BTW, a significant percentage of the time is waiting for FPC compiling because FPC normally crashes without -B. I think you should focus your

Re: [fpc-devel] Comparison FPC 2.6.2 - Delphi 7

2013-03-03 Thread Sven Barth
On 03.03.2013 08:23, Martin Schreiber wrote: On Sunday 03 March 2013 08:12:28 Martin Schreiber wrote: On Saturday 02 March 2013 11:28:25 Michael Van Canneyt wrote: On Sat, 2 Mar 2013, Martin Schreiber wrote: On Saturday 02 March 2013 10:52:18 Michael Van Canneyt wrote: Anyway, what seems

Re: [fpc-devel] Comparison FPC 2.6.2 - Delphi 7

2013-03-03 Thread Martin Schreiber
On Sunday 03 March 2013 10:42:09 Sven Barth wrote: Do you mean compiling the compiler? If so than for real tests you SHOULD NOT compile the compiler by hand, but only through make cycle in the compiler directory or make all in the top level directory. This will ensure that the compiler is

Re: [fpc-devel] arm-embedded apps crash in exception handler initialization because heapmanager is not initialized

2013-03-03 Thread Michael Ring
Simple solutions are the best ;-) Thanks for opening my eyes to this easy approach. I have created a patch for heapmgr.pp, could I ask you to commit it to svn? For a little more flexible solution I would like to ask you one more questions, it may seem dumb to you but I have never been that

Re: [fpc-devel] Delphi anonymous methods

2013-03-03 Thread Sven Barth
On 03.03.2013 08:07, Vasiliy Kevroletin wrote: If the x is really located in the FrameObject and that object exists only once then it is rather likely that the output of 'Before 123: ' is different from the output of 'After 123: ', right? Again I think this is a bad thing... I was wrong. Local

Re: [fpc-devel] Delphi anonymous methods

2013-03-03 Thread Sven Barth
On 03.03.2013 06:08, Vasiliy Kevroletin wrote: Do you have any ideas how and why such behaviour implemented ? Now I can answer my question myself. *Local variables of anonymous method are located on stack*. I would have wondered about the state of mind of the Embarcadero developers if it

Re: [fpc-devel] arm-embedded apps crash in exception handler initialization because heapmanager is not initialized

2013-03-03 Thread Sven Barth
On 03.03.2013 11:04, Michael Ring wrote: For a little more flexible solution I would like to ask you one more questions, it may seem dumb to you but I have never been that deep into a compiler before so I am learning a lot atm. I can see that the compiler param -Ch can be used to define the

Re: [fpc-devel] Comparison FPC 2.6.2 - Delphi 7

2013-03-03 Thread Sven Barth
On 03.03.2013 11:08, Martin Schreiber wrote: On Sunday 03 March 2013 10:42:09 Sven Barth wrote: Do you mean compiling the compiler? If so than for real tests you SHOULD NOT compile the compiler by hand, but only through make cycle in the compiler directory or make all in the top level

Re: [fpc-devel] Delphi anonymous methods

2013-03-03 Thread Vasiliy Kevroletin
On 03/03/2013 09:11 PM, Sven Barth wrote: On 03.03.2013 06:08, Vasiliy Kevroletin wrote: Do you have any ideas how and why such behaviour implemented ? Now I can answer my question myself. *Local variables of anonymous method are located on stack*. I would have wondered about the state of

Re: [fpc-devel] Delphi anonymous methods

2013-03-03 Thread Vasiliy Kevroletin
Maybe specifying how a variable should be captured would be a solution that can satisfy both worlds... Good. This will also help to split implementation. 1. Implement Sven's proposal. Anonymous functions which can capture local variables only by value. 2. Create Delphi-compatible capturing

Re: [fpc-devel] arm-embedded apps crash in exception handler initialization because heapmanager is not initialized

2013-03-03 Thread Michael Ring
This helped me to understand another puzzle piece. Please correct me if I am wrong: sram - Memory is divided in several areas on arm-embedded: _data starts at start of sram ($2000 in my case) _edata is end of _data segment ($29b4) _bss_start defines start of static vars ($29b4)

Re: [fpc-devel] Delphi anonymous methods

2013-03-03 Thread Sven Barth
On 03.03.2013 12:26, Vasiliy Kevroletin wrote: Maybe specifying how a variable should be captured would be a solution that can satisfy both worlds... Good. This will also help to split implementation. 1. Implement Sven's proposal. Anonymous functions which can capture local variables only

Re: [fpc-devel] Comparison FPC 2.6.2 - Delphi 7

2013-03-03 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Sun, 3 Mar 2013, Martin Schreiber wrote: On Sunday 03 March 2013 08:12:28 Martin Schreiber wrote: On Saturday 02 March 2013 11:28:25 Michael Van Canneyt wrote: On Sat, 2 Mar 2013, Martin Schreiber wrote: On Saturday 02 March 2013 10:52:18 Michael Van Canneyt wrote: Anyway, what seems

Re: [fpc-devel] Delphi anonymous methods

2013-03-03 Thread Alexander Klenin
On Sun, Mar 3, 2013 at 11:21 PM, Sven Barth pascaldra...@googlemail.com wrote: This will also help to split implementation. 1. Implement Sven's proposal. Anonymous functions which can capture local variables only by value. 2. Create Delphi-compatible capturing by reference. 3. Discuss and

Re: [fpc-devel] Delphi anonymous methods

2013-03-03 Thread Paul Ishenin
03.03.13, 22:09, Alexander Klenin пишет: I agree with the plan. But I am not sure about the order -- perhaps implement Delphi-compatible variant first, since it have to be done anyway, and there is already a spec for it. I also vote for Delphi-compatible feature the first, then implement

Re: [fpc-devel] Delphi anonymous methods

2013-03-03 Thread Sven Barth
On 03.03.2013 15:09, Alexander Klenin wrote: On Sun, Mar 3, 2013 at 11:21 PM, Sven Barth pascaldra...@googlemail.com wrote: This will also help to split implementation. 1. Implement Sven's proposal. Anonymous functions which can capture local variables only by value. 2. Create

[fpc-devel] Re: Regarding the Free Pascal closure branch

2013-03-03 Thread Blaise Thorn
On 29.01.2013 13:21, Sven Barth wrote: Am 29.01.2013 07:34, schrieb Blaise Thorn: On 16.12.2012 20:52, Sven Barth wrote: out of curiosity I have taken a look at your closure branch. Can it be that you forgot to commit the pnameless unit? I did not actually forget, just got distracted,

[fpc-devel] Re: Regarding the Free Pascal closure branch

2013-03-03 Thread Sven Barth
On 03.03.2013 17:00, Blaise Thorn wrote: On 29.01.2013 13:21, Sven Barth wrote: Am 29.01.2013 07:34, schrieb Blaise Thorn: On 16.12.2012 20:52, Sven Barth wrote: out of curiosity I have taken a look at your closure branch. Can it be that you forgot to commit the pnameless unit? I did not

Re: [fpc-devel] Status of SEH in FPC

2013-03-03 Thread Flávio Etrusco
On Sun, Mar 3, 2013 at 1:28 AM, Sergei Gorelkin sergei_gorel...@mail.ru wrote: 03.03.2013 2:53, Flávio Etrusco пишет: Hello, what's the current state of the SEH in FPC trunk? IIRC - and according to wikipedia ;-) - SEH, at least for Windows, was in the 2.7 roadmap, but I can't find any

Re: [fpc-devel] Status of SEH in FPC

2013-03-03 Thread Sven Barth
On 03.03.2013 17:45, Flávio Etrusco wrote: On Sun, Mar 3, 2013 at 1:28 AM, Sergei Gorelkin sergei_gorel...@mail.ru wrote: 03.03.2013 2:53, Flávio Etrusco пишет: Hello, what's the current state of the SEH in FPC trunk? IIRC - and according to wikipedia ;-) - SEH, at least for Windows, was in

Re: [fpc-devel] Status of SEH in FPC

2013-03-03 Thread Sven Barth
On 03.03.2013 17:52, Sven Barth wrote: On 03.03.2013 17:45, Flávio Etrusco wrote: On Sun, Mar 3, 2013 at 1:28 AM, Sergei Gorelkin sergei_gorel...@mail.ru wrote: 03.03.2013 2:53, Flávio Etrusco пишет: Hello, what's the current state of the SEH in FPC trunk? IIRC - and according to wikipedia

[fpc-devel] Re: Comparison FPC 2.6.2 - Kylix 3

2013-03-03 Thread Martin Schreiber
On Friday 01 March 2013 18:33:56 Martin Schreiber wrote: [...] On Linux, same computer, OpenSUSE 12.2, comparison FPC 2.6.2, Kylix 3, Source (master branch a4172602c45fe5abc931dee8b8ae2f4744ee70f3): http://gitorious.org/mseide-msegui Command line Kylix 3: dcc -D+ -Aclasses=Classes

Re: [fpc-devel] Comparison FPC 2.6.2 - Delphi 7

2013-03-03 Thread Martin Schreiber
Am 02.03.2013 11:11, schrieb Martin Schreiber: On Saturday 02 March 2013 10:52:18 Michael Van Canneyt wrote: Anyway, what seems obvious from your numbers is that it is the linking stage that needs speedup. This does not really come as a surprise. On Windows FPC linking time of MSEide is

Re: [fpc-devel] Comparison FPC 2.6.2 - Delphi 7

2013-03-03 Thread Marco van de Voort
In our previous episode, Michael Van Canneyt said: I'm sorry, but I do not share your focus on speed. I have many projects, some of them have more units than mseide does, and yet I never have to wait more than a couple of seconds. The only exception is the Lazarus IDE. No, I have also seen

[fpc-devel] Thank you for ARMV6M!!!

2013-03-03 Thread Michael Ring
I just saw that armv6m has showed up in the sourcecode of trunk version. You guys are great, thank you very much I just checked, I do have a LPCXpresso LPC812 Board here, now I can put it to good use! Michael ___ fpc-devel maillist -

Re: [fpc-devel] Re: Comparison FPC 2.6.2 - Kylix 3

2013-03-03 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Sun, 3 Mar 2013, Martin Schreiber wrote: On Friday 01 March 2013 18:33:56 Martin Schreiber wrote: [...] On Linux, same computer, OpenSUSE 12.2, comparison FPC 2.6.2, Kylix 3, Source (master branch a4172602c45fe5abc931dee8b8ae2f4744ee70f3): http://gitorious.org/mseide-msegui Impressive.

[fpc-devel] ppcrossarm dies when trying to build embedded rtl (svn 23683)

2013-03-03 Thread Michael Ring
I am running on a mac, building svn 23683 svn 23681 (one before implementation of armv6m) compiles fine. commandline for building was: make clean buildbase CROSSINSTALL=1 OS_TARGET=embedded CPU_TARGET=arm SUBARCH=armv7m CROSSOPT=-gw2 -O- BINUTILSPREFIX=arm-none-eabi- make -C rtl all make

Re: [fpc-devel] Re: Comparison FPC 2.6.2 - Kylix 3

2013-03-03 Thread Martin Schreiber
On Sunday 03 March 2013 20:08:43 Michael Van Canneyt wrote: On Sun, 3 Mar 2013, Martin Schreiber wrote: On Friday 01 March 2013 18:33:56 Martin Schreiber wrote: [...] On Linux, same computer, OpenSUSE 12.2, comparison FPC 2.6.2, Kylix 3, Source (master branch

Re: [fpc-devel] Re: Comparison FPC 2.6.2 - Kylix 3

2013-03-03 Thread Florian Klämpfl
Am 03.03.2013 20:40, schrieb Martin Schreiber: On Sunday 03 March 2013 20:08:43 Michael Van Canneyt wrote: On Sun, 3 Mar 2013, Martin Schreiber wrote: On Friday 01 March 2013 18:33:56 Martin Schreiber wrote: [...] On Linux, same computer, OpenSUSE 12.2, comparison FPC 2.6.2, Kylix 3, Source

Re: [fpc-devel] Thank you for ARMV6M!!!

2013-03-03 Thread Florian Klämpfl
Am 03.03.2013 19:51, schrieb Michael Ring: I just saw that armv6m has showed up in the sourcecode of trunk version. You guys are great, thank you very much I just checked, I do have a LPCXpresso LPC812 Board here, now I can put it to good use! Note that it is still work in progress.

Re: [fpc-devel] Re: Comparison FPC 2.6.2 - Kylix 3

2013-03-03 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 2013-03-03 19:47, Florian Klämpfl wrote: First 10 m of a marathon done. Is that 'miles' or 'meters'? ;-) Regards, - Graeme - -- fpGUI Toolkit - a cross-platform GUI toolkit using Free Pascal http://fpgui.sourceforge.net/ ___ fpc-devel

Re: [fpc-devel] Thank you for ARMV6M!!!

2013-03-03 Thread Michael Ring
I've already downloaded the latest Datasheet from NXP ;-) I am very glad that I decided to switch from closed source compilers from mikroe.com to freepascal, the current speed of development for embedded target is quite impressive and in many areas I can help myself because everything is open

Re: [fpc-devel] ppcrossarm dies when trying to build embedded rtl (svn 23683)

2013-03-03 Thread Michael Ring
I have created a new patch, this time it uses the values of the two commandline parameters -Ch and -Cs to set the size of Stack and Heap. I am not sure if those params were for this use case but in my opinion it makes sense. Florian, could I ask you to apply the patch to trunk if what I am

Re: [fpc-devel] ppcrossarm dies when trying to build embedded rtl (svn 23683)

2013-03-03 Thread Florian Klämpfl
Am 03.03.2013 21:27, schrieb Michael Ring: I have created a new patch, this time it uses the values of the two commandline parameters -Ch and -Cs to set the size of Stack and Heap. I am not sure if those params were for this use case but in my opinion it makes sense. Florian, could I ask

Re: [fpc-devel] ppcrossarm dies when trying to build embedded rtl (svn 23683)

2013-03-03 Thread Michel Catudal
On 2013-03-03 14:09, Michael Ring wrote: I am running on a mac, building svn 23683 svn 23681 (one before implementation of armv6m) compiles fine. commandline for building was: make clean buildbase CROSSINSTALL=1 OS_TARGET=embedded CPU_TARGET=arm SUBARCH=armv7m CROSSOPT=-gw2 -O-

Re: [fpc-devel] arm-embedded apps crash in exception handler initialization because heapmanager is not initialized

2013-03-03 Thread Michael Ring
That would of course be even better, the compiler could calculate if vars+stack+heap fit in the given memory configuration and issue at minimum a warning or even better a compile error. But this is definitely something that is out of my league, Florin, could you implement this? Michael Am

Re: [fpc-devel] arm-embedded apps crash in exception handler initialization because heapmanager is not initialized

2013-03-03 Thread Florian Klämpfl
Am 03.03.2013 22:09, schrieb Michael Ring: That would of course be even better, the compiler could calculate if vars+stack+heap fit in the given memory configuration and issue at minimum a warning or even better a compile error. But this is definitely something that is out of my league,

Re: [fpc-devel] ppcrossarm dies when trying to build embedded rtl (svn 23683)

2013-03-03 Thread Florian Klämpfl
Am 03.03.2013 20:09, schrieb Michael Ring: $ $00142333 $00144647 $00144B00 $001AF725 $001970A5 $0003295E make[3]: *** [system.ppu] Error 217 make[2]: *** [embedded_all] Error 2 make[1]: *** [rtl_all] Error 2 make: *** [base.build-stamp.arm-embedded] Error 2

Re: [fpc-devel] ppcrossarm dies when trying to build embedded rtl (svn 23683)

2013-03-03 Thread Michael Ring
Verified, works again on my mac, TnX! Michael Am 03.03.13 23:00, schrieb Florian Klämpfl: Am 03.03.2013 20:09, schrieb Michael Ring: $ $00142333 $00144647 $00144B00 $001AF725 $001970A5 $0003295E make[3]: *** [system.ppu] Error 217 make[2]: *** [embedded_all]

Re: [fpc-devel] Re: Comparison FPC 2.6.2 - Kylix 3

2013-03-03 Thread Marcos Douglas
On Sun, Mar 3, 2013 at 5:16 PM, Graeme Geldenhuys gra...@geldenhuys.co.uk wrote: On 2013-03-03 19:47, Florian Klämpfl wrote: First 10 m of a marathon done. Is that 'miles' or 'meters'? ;-) Sad. Instead of fight, why not walking together? IMHO Martin Schreiber is doing a great job using

Re: [fpc-devel] Re: Comparison FPC 2.6.2 - Kylix 3

2013-03-03 Thread Vittorio Giovara
On 04/mar/2013, at 00:21, Marcos Douglas m...@delfire.net wrote: On Sun, Mar 3, 2013 at 5:16 PM, Graeme Geldenhuys gra...@geldenhuys.co.uk wrote: On 2013-03-03 19:47, Florian Klämpfl wrote: First 10 m of a marathon done. Is that 'miles' or 'meters'? ;-) Sad. Instead of fight, why not

Re: [fpc-devel] Re: Comparison FPC 2.6.2 - Kylix 3

2013-03-03 Thread Marcos Douglas
On Sun, Mar 3, 2013 at 8:29 PM, Vittorio Giovara vittorio.giov...@gmail.com wrote: On 04/mar/2013, at 00:21, Marcos Douglas m...@delfire.net wrote: [cut] FPC Team: Try to hear Martin otherwise, because he is a great developer with great ideas. I am no fpc dev here, but patches are

Re: [fpc-devel] Re: Comparison FPC 2.6.2 - Kylix 3

2013-03-03 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 2013-03-03 23:21, Marcos Douglas wrote: Sad. Instead of fight, why not walking together? I'm not joining any fight, simply wanted to know what the 'm' stood for. I do not know nothing about compilers, but I know the Florian Klämpfl will do nothing about you're saying because do you do

Re: [fpc-devel] Delphi anonymous methods

2013-03-03 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 2013-03-02 19:03, vrt277 wrote: I want to implement support of Delphi anonymous methods for fpc. Just curious... why must such a feature be allowed in Object Pascal? Referring to the recent butchering of the Object Pascal language thread we had recently in fpc-pascal. It was clearly

Re: [fpc-devel] Re: Comparison FPC 2.6.2 - Kylix 3

2013-03-03 Thread Marcos Douglas
On Sun, Mar 3, 2013 at 9:00 PM, Graeme Geldenhuys gra...@geldenhuys.co.uk wrote: On 2013-03-03 23:21, Marcos Douglas wrote: Sad. Instead of fight, why not walking together? I'm not joining any fight, simply wanted to know what the 'm' stood for. I know. I just used the last mail on this

Re: [fpc-devel] Delphi anonymous methods

2013-03-03 Thread Marcos Douglas
On Sun, Mar 3, 2013 at 9:15 PM, Graeme Geldenhuys gra...@geldenhuys.co.uk wrote: On 2013-03-02 19:03, vrt277 wrote: I want to implement support of Delphi anonymous methods for fpc. Just curious... why must such a feature be allowed in Object Pascal? Referring to the recent butchering of the

Re: [fpc-devel] Delphi anonymous methods

2013-03-03 Thread Boian Mitov
Strongly disagree. Anonymous methods are a critical feature of any mother language, and allow vast improvements of the code and the readability. I recently started rewriting our libraries with anonymous methods and that alone allowed for cutting over 2 lines of code, while adding vast

Re: [fpc-devel] Delphi anonymous methods

2013-03-03 Thread Martin
On 04/03/2013 01:47, Boian Mitov wrote: Strongly disagree. Anonymous methods are a critical feature of any mother language, and allow vast improvements of the code and the readability. I recently started rewriting our libraries with anonymous methods and that alone allowed for cutting over

Re: [fpc-devel] Delphi anonymous methods

2013-03-03 Thread Boian Mitov
Yes, really! Then again this is over 4 mln mines of code after all. :-D Thank you for letting me know what closure is :-D . Can you imagine, me being component vendor for over 16 years and not knowing what closure is :-D. Anonymous methods lead to a different way of thinking altogether and

Re: [fpc-devel] Delphi anonymous methods

2013-03-03 Thread Boian Mitov
Actually the biggest benefit was that it now allows me to design parallel execution code of complexity I was not able to design otherwise. I am just starting to scratch the surface. Hell... I have not even started really using the anonymous methods yet :-D . With best regards, Boian Mitov

Re: [fpc-devel] Delphi anonymous methods

2013-03-03 Thread Alexander Klenin
On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 11:15 AM, Graeme Geldenhuys gra...@geldenhuys.co.uk wrote: From what I can see, anonymous methods are just like the above code... allowing a declaration of a procedure/method in-line inside a code block where in shouldn't belong. It is very, very un-Pascal like. Because

Re: [fpc-devel] Delphi anonymous methods

2013-03-03 Thread Boian Mitov
100% agree revolutionary is a very good word to describe it indeed! :-) . I remember people asking in the old days, why we need objects. Those ware old school Pascal people claiming that they can do just fine with records, and who needs classes :-D . They ware so un Pascal ! :-D . I am not

Re: [fpc-devel] Delphi anonymous methods

2013-03-03 Thread Martin
On 04/03/2013 03:49, Boian Mitov wrote: Yes, really! Then again this is over 4 mln mines of code after all. :-D Thank you for letting me know what closure is :-D . Can you imagine, me being component vendor for over 16 years and not knowing what closure is :-D. Did I? Wow, I didn't know I did.

Re: [fpc-devel] Delphi anonymous methods

2013-03-03 Thread Boian Mitov
Here is example: Parallel execution with selection of executor: for i := 0 to AMaxScaleIndex - 1 do begin APerIterationLocations.Add( TRTDynamicListTVLImageRect.Create() ); AExecutionTask.Add( AExecutor.Execute( procedure() begin ProcessOne( levelScale[ i ], img,

Re: [fpc-devel] Delphi anonymous methods

2013-03-03 Thread Boian Mitov
One thing for sure, I probably will very much never need to declare TThread inherited classes. I can use a single anonymous method for that, thanks to the ability of the anonymous method to capture local and member variables. This is something not doable with closure as it has fixed number of

Re: [fpc-devel] Delphi anonymous methods

2013-03-03 Thread Boian Mitov
Here is another even simpler example: AItem := GComponentEditorList.Find( function( AItem : IComponentEditorItem ) : Boolean begin Result := ( AComponent is AItem.GetInstance().ComponentClass ); end ); In this case you

Re: [fpc-devel] Delphi anonymous methods

2013-03-03 Thread Boian Mitov
Or even more drastic example like this one: AAttributes := TRTRtti.GetType( Component.ClassType() ).GetCustomAttributes( TVLCommonFilterHostedPreviewAttribute, True ); for AAttribute in AAttributes do if( AAttribute is TLPComponentEditorAttribute ) then begin AAttrItem :=

Re: [fpc-devel] Delphi anonymous methods

2013-03-03 Thread Alexander Klenin
On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 4:06 PM, Boian Mitov mi...@mitov.com wrote: Here is another even simpler example: AItem := GComponentEditorList.Find( function( AItem : IComponentEditorItem ) : Boolean begin Result := ( AComponent is

Re: [fpc-devel] Delphi anonymous methods

2013-03-03 Thread Boian Mitov
What people don't usually realize is that an anonymous method indeed is internally expanded to a full blown object of unique class, with member variables and all. Indeed I use the anonymous methods to effectively declare a new class and make instance of it right in place with only couple of

Re: [fpc-devel] Delphi anonymous methods

2013-03-03 Thread Boian Mitov
Thank you! I am sorry, got overexcited. I like the lambda proposal, but on the other hand, I have to use Delphi (at least for now). The advantage of the Delphi implementation is that it uses familiar Pascal like syntax, but I am sure we can get used to the lambda syntax. With best regards,

Re: [fpc-devel] Delphi anonymous methods

2013-03-03 Thread Alexander Klenin
On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 2:38 PM, Martin laza...@mfriebe.de wrote: Closures, do not need to be written/declared in the middle of other code (in-line) Strictly speaking, they do not. However, if the closures are required to be named, their expressive power and readability will suffer greatly.

Re: [fpc-devel] Delphi anonymous methods

2013-03-03 Thread Boian Mitov
It may be a good idea to analyze the current Delphi implementation. In essence the anonymous method expands to a class and interface. The interface Execute method has the parameters of the anonymous function. and the corresponding interface has the Execute method. The class contains all the

Re: [fpc-devel] Re: Comparison FPC 2.6.2 - Kylix 3

2013-03-03 Thread Martin Schreiber
On Monday 04 March 2013 00:29:51 Vittorio Giovara wrote: IMHO Martin Schreiber is doing a great job using these comparisons and some improvements could be made in FPC... but he is making a mistake in their approach of how to present FPC's defects. I am not so sure about this... I know