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Normally, you have a committee of people working on such things,
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cite="mid:73d5f7940435f3c99719cb84555b5eb3@mail.freepascal.org">and
on top you have a backlog which will probably take the rest of
your life to catch up with.
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But hey, it's your time, don't let me stop you...
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Michael.
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<p>Well, I'm going to be living those years anyway, and despite some
occasional disagreements, I do enjoy developing for FPC!</p>
<p>Having a specification that the majority agrees upon would help
in ensuring programmers don't fall foul of some of the nuances of
the language, and having a committee for it stops absolute
stinkers of features like the inlined var definitions in the most
recent version of Delphi (yuck!). Also, if I suddenly die from
getting struck by a meteorite or something, at least most of the
specifics of <b>pure</b> functions will be defined so someone can
pick up where I left off if they feel up to it.<br>
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<p>Gareth aka. Kit<br>
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<p>P.S. I think your return e-mail got a little screwed up in the
last message.<br>
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