[fpc-devel] for-in-index loop

[Alexander Klenin]

On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 12:39 AM, Paul Ishenin <paul.ishenin at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> I would use anonymouse methods in pascal - I use them in javascript
>>> when I need to perform something asynchronosly.
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>>
>> Since you can do the same with simple named methods too, I see no need
>> for creating the readibility horror that results of it.
>
>
> It is a readability horror when for injecting a small piece of code as
> anonymouse method in place where it is needed you *must* declare a new named
> method (which will no be used anywhere else) few screens up or down.

Note that readability troubles of anonymous functions in Pascal
are largely due to unfortunate syntax.
In a parallel thread, I have offered some suggestions to make them
much more readable.

>> It offers nothing that objects didn't already have.
> It offers understandable memory layout without VMT.
Oops... so, FPC "object" type always creates VMT -- even if there is
no virtual methods?

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Alexander S. Klenin