[fpc-devel] Delphi anonymous methods

[Martin]

On 04/03/2013 01:47, Boian Mitov wrote:
> Strongly disagree.
> Anonymous methods are a critical feature of any mother language, and 
> allow vast improvements of the code and the readability. I recently 
> started rewriting our libraries with anonymous methods and that alone 
> allowed for cutting over 20000 lines of code, while adding vast number 
> of new features. Any language that does not support anonymous methods 
> is just a joke IMHO.
>
Really, just by dropping the names? Or did you mean, you did all that by 
using closures?

>> From what I can see, anonymous methods are just like the above code...
> allowing a declaration of a procedure/method in-line inside a code block
> where in shouldn't belong. It is very, very un-Pascal like. The end
> result is unreadable code, probably hard to debug etc.

Closures, do not need to be written/declared in the middle of other code 
(in-line)