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<div><style> BODY { font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px; }</style>Hm, fair enough. Seems a bit strange to not like a new feature, although Delphi did start getting a bit bloated in places. Ah well! Compatibility is never a bad thing though!</div><div><br>
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">On Sat 16/02/19 08:27 , Jonas Maebe jonas@freepascal.org sent:<br>
</span><blockquote style="BORDER-LEFT: #F5F5F5 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px">On 16/02/19 01:37, J. Gareth Moreton wrote:
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<span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">> One thing that does spring to mind though.,, what features of Delphi and
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<span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">> FPC made the language unsuitable for Martin Schreiber, and is it
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<span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">> anything we developers can possibly address in some way?
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He did not like new language features and RTL changes added by Delphi in
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newer versions (generics, codepage-aware strings, RTL switched to
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unicode string), and FPC's goal to remain Delphi-compatible.
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