[fpc-pascal] Re: Delphi's anonymous functions in Free Pascal

[Alexander Shishkin]

06.11.2011 18:13, dmitry boyarintsev пишет:
> On Sun, Nov 6, 2011 at 8:00 AM, Alexander Shishkin<alexvins at mail.ru>  wrote:
>> OK, agreed, this is more readable than Delphi syntax. But ...
>> 1) If we implement lamdas is FPC we will have to support Delphi syntax.
>
> Hi-jacking, the thread, and again should FPC chase Delphi forever?
> Their technical decisions are directed mostly by "marketing" needs.
> Should Open Source mimic that?

FPC support not their decisions but existing Delphi code. This is the 
propose of several syntax modes in FPC as I understand. Even if Delphi 
will eventually  support FPC dialect it have to maintain compatibility 
with current Delphi dialect and also FPC should do so.

> Now, FPC has provided support for ObjC interface, and Delphi is using
> that, so maybe it will (and should) be otherwise - Delphi is to
> provide syntax support for FPC?
>
> thanks,
> Dmitry
>