[fpc-pascal] Advanced Records - Why not available by default?

[Marco van de Voort]

In our previous episode, J.-c. Chu said:
> Frankly, every new feature will be a mere increase of complexity if you
> reject learning about it.
> 
> There is a listing, despite not up-to-date, of new language features
> since Delphi 7, at <http://edn.embarcadero.com/article/34324>.  Not all
> of them are currently implemented in FPC. 

Which ones aren't? 

> Could you point out which of
> them is ?nonsense? or ?only saves some keystrokes??
>
Below is a link to a very old discussion of the above article:

http://www.stack.nl/~marcov/delphilater.txt