Re: [fpc-pascal] IDE and programming woes

2010-05-01 Thread David Emerson
First, a descriptive subject header is much appreciated. As for your IDE troubles, I don't know how many people actually use that old FreeVision-based IDE... many of us use either Lazarus or some other more modern editor. Is there some reason you can't or don't want to try Lazarus? > Tirdly, o

[fpc-pascal] Is this a reference counting bug?

2010-05-01 Thread Bihar Anwar
I found that the last element of a dynamic array starts with reference count = 2 in FPC, but in Delphi is 1. Is this an FPC bug, or FPC implements reference counting differ from Delphi? type PAnsiRec = ^TAnsiRec; TAnsiRec = packed Record Ref, Len : SizeInt; First : Char; end;

[fpc-pascal] Is there anyone will answer my questions

2010-05-01 Thread
Dear FreePascal, I have some questions when I am using Free Pascal >> firstly , I find that I Can't use hot-key "Ctrl+N" to add a new line in the IDE. and I think the Free Pascal's ide is not very stable, I am using fpc under a MS-DOS 7.1, sometimes when I am editing my sourse code

Re: [fpc-pascal] dynamic array contents and system.move

2010-05-01 Thread David Emerson
Jürgen Hestermann wrote: > Although I would have expected that special procedures exist to insert > and remove array elements so that there is no need to do such things > manually ... These must be written on a case-by-case basis, for each type of array element. Perhaps I'll tackle this someday

Re: [fpc-pascal] method order

2010-05-01 Thread spir ☣
On Fri, 30 Apr 2010 19:17:51 +0200 Mattias Gaertner wrote: > Maybe you don't know 'forward'? Thank you! Denis vit esse estrany ☣ spir.wikidot.com ___ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://li

Re: [fpc-pascal] dynamic array contents and system.move

2010-05-01 Thread Jonas Maebe
On 01 May 2010, at 11:09, Jürgen Hestermann wrote: > Yes, that looks good as it does not violate the rule that an identifier > should mean the same memory address independent from context. As has been explained umpteen times already in this thread: a dynamic array identifier always identifies

Re: [fpc-pascal] dynamic array contents and system.move

2010-05-01 Thread Jürgen Hestermann
At best, one day we may add GPC-compatible array schema types (see http://www.gnu-pascal.de/gpc/Schema-Types.html, the part under "As a GNU Pascal extension, the above can also be written as"). These don't hide anything. Yes, that looks good as it does not violate the rule that an identifier