[fpc-pascal] Declaration of arrays

[Mattias Gaertner]

On Mon, 17 Jun 2013 22:06:46 +0200
Rainer Stratmann <rainerstratmann at t-online.de> wrote:

> For some days I have the mikroPascal Compiler from Mikroelektronika.
> And I am satisfied with it.
> 
> http://www.mikroe.com/mikropascal/avr
> 
> With that product the declaration of an array is also possible with only one 
> number.
> 
> For example:
> 
> var test : array[ 10 ] of byte;

For making porting code from other Pascal compilers easier fpc supports
the modes (Delphi, TP, MacPas, ...). Do you think it is worth to add a
new mikroPascal mode or modeswitch?

 
> Like in C.
> That would make migration from C to Pascal easier.
> Is it posssible to integrate this in Freepascal also?

Compiling other languages syntax is not the goal of a Pascal
compiler.
C to Pascal converters have this goal.


Mattias