[fpc-devel] language extensions

[Neil Graham]

Daniël Mantione wrote:
> Andreas uses a preprocessor to convert the language extensions into Delphi 
> compatible code. This is a remarkable achievement, but I don't see much 
> value for this approach for Free Pascal; since we have the source code, we 
> could implement the features directly.
>   
I think it's good to do things like this as a preprocessor(when 
possible) initially.  It means ideas can be
tried out more easily and given a test run before attacking the compiler.

I guess it could be done in the compiler if someone made a plugin 
mechanism for fpc.
I ain't volunteering for _that_ job :-)