[fpc-pascal] hello world

2016-05-05 Thread M Pulis
Folks: Apologies for the beginner nature of this query... why won't this compile? It is the only open file and is saved, looks like a main program to me. program Hello; begin writeln ('Hello, world.'); readln end. getting: No main program found in open files. Can not build.

Re: [fpc-pascal] Re: Feature proposal: function-based assignment operatorst

2013-03-28 Thread M Pulis
Same here. M On Mar 28, 2013, at 6:21 PM, leledumbo wrote: Good point. So to be consistent, don't turn it on :-) NEVER turn it on for me :-) If only I'm the core dev, I would mark the C operator feature as deprecated and remove it in the next major version. -- View this message in

Re: [fpc-pascal] readonly variables

2009-11-29 Thread M Pulis
On Nov 28, 2009, at 1:15 PM, Anthony Walter wrote: This is not guaranteed in any way. It happens to be so most of the time, but your code should never assume this is so, except for global Ansistring variables. If all globals weren't initialized to 0 a lot of code from lots of people

Re: [fpc-pascal] WORD (2 bytes) to String conversion

2009-10-25 Thread M Pulis
On Oct 25, 2009, at 3:09 PM, Paul Nicholls wrote: - Original Message - From: Graeme Geldenhuys graemeg.li...@gmail.com To: FPC-Pascal users discussions fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org Sent: Friday, October 23, 2009 11:10 PM Subject: [fpc-pascal] WORD (2 bytes) to String conversion

Re: [fpc-pascal] GRAPHICS HELP : PLEASE PLEASE????

2009-06-28 Thread M Pulis
So, a simple Google pascal graphics code samples did not help? Without a _lot_ more detail (beginner, PC/Mac OS etc) we can't help you, one please or a dozen Google first, list second. Sincerely, Everyone :-) On Jun 27, 2009, at 8:32 PM, Zachary Marlow wrote: Hello,

Re: [fpc-pascal] Install FPC/Lazarus for Win CE

2008-09-10 Thread M Pulis
I for one can not get Lazarus to run on 10.4.11 G5 Quad. Followed all installation instructions - no launch. I don't care to download the source and compile, I expect the easy installation to work (funny Mac user). I'll wait for the dmg release. Xcode seems to host FPC OK. Gary On Sep

Re: [fpc-pascal] Install FPC/Lazarus for Win CE

2008-09-10 Thread M Pulis
Trivial of little value or importance : huge fines were imposed for trivial offenses | trivial details. • (of a person) concerned only with trifling or unimportant things. Ass-u-me-s you have svn... and unless I read the lazarus page wrong the FPC source is required, yes? The more I

Re: [fpc-pascal] Re: classes initialization

2008-03-25 Thread M Pulis
p.s. I think the inconsistent behavior between local scope records and global scope records is kind of a flaw/danger in modern pascal.. as the bugs may not be caught until someone builds a program with local scope var.. Using uninitialised variables is virtually always bad, regardless

[fpc-pascal] update confusion...

2007-12-09 Thread M Pulis
Folks, Not sure where to ask this, so I am starting with this list... Upgraded from xcode 2.1 to 2.4 and FPC 2.2.1. G5 quad, 10.4.11. My FPC xcode project builds ok, but, when I add an empty file and close the project, xcode says, to the effect: The project myProject.xcodeproj is read