<div dir="auto">Failure to track valuable delphi capabilities and compatibilotu reads as people being stuck in the mud of “we never dun it this way before”.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Apr 26, 2026 at 4:41 AM Tomas Hajny via fpc-pascal <<a href="mailto:fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org">fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204)">25. dubna 2026 21:09:55 SELČ, Graeme Geldenhuys via fpc-pascal <<a href="mailto:fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org" target="_blank">fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org</a>> napsal:<br>
> On Saturday, 25 April 2026 18:38:09 BST Tomas Hajny via fpc-pascal wrote:<br>
> > it should be strongly discouraged because it is not compliant to Pascal.<br>
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> Ummm... Let's use examples:<br>
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> It's called language evolution.<br>
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Your examples are (mostly) new features rather than changes to the syntax rules of the language. While weakening previously existing rules may be considered "evolution", others may consider them degradation.<br>
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Tomas<br>
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