<div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote" dir="auto"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">Steve Litt via fpc-pascal <<a href="mailto:fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org">fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org</a>> schrieb am Mo., 30. Mai 2022, 21:25:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">With the addition of callback functions, and the closures and events<br>
they bring to the table, you can go procedural, OOP, or to a degree<br>
functional. I think adding yet more features obfuscates and Perlizes<br>
Pascal.<br></blockquote></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">We are adding those features we deem useful or are sorely needed for Delphi compatibility especially when said feature allows something that isn't easily possible with existing functionality. This is the case for anonymous functions and function references. </div><div dir="auto">Features that are merely syntactic sugar for existing functionality have a much lower chance to be implemented. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Regards, </div><div dir="auto">Sven </div><div class="gmail_quote" dir="auto"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"></blockquote></div></div>