[fpc-devel] property syntax extension

[Michael Schnell]

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> Are you sure this would make things easier? Code in the handler needs 
> to be thread safe. Starting a thread is very easy, with TThread?
If you use common resources of course you do need to take create to do 
it in a thread save way.

But if you want to off-load some kind of work to one or more threads you 
need to do the communication - especially notifications between the 
threads - in a way everybody needs to invent for himself. Mostly you 
will (or even need to) use non-portable methods (Windows-Messages) for 
that. I always feel that it's not "nice" that when doing a thread you 
can't use event-driven programming (as everybody does in the main 
thread), but need to do your own work-loop per thread. (I do know that 
modifying this would be a _major_ RTL enhancement. So I'm not suggesting 
to start working on that right here. I'm just thinking about a means to 
integrate it into the language at a future point in time.)

Some predefined, portable and easy to understand (i.e. very similar to 
main-thread programing) way to work with threads would be a nice 
enhancement over what any other Delphi-Language successor provides right 
now. Here I can imagine extending Events (including may those of the 
standard libraries provide) to working as threads could be a way to go.
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> Or do you mean you want something like work queues?
Supposedly some queuing mechanism needs to be used to provide parameters 
to the thread and to pass results back to the program that defined the 
event would be used.

-Michael