[fpc-devel] Interface delegation fix: backport to FPC 2.4.2 ...? (fwd)

[michael.vancanneyt at wisa.be]

Forwarded here, so everyone can see it. I mistakenly replied to Marco alone.

Michael.

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Date: Thu, 20 May 2010 09:39:29 +0200 (CEST)
From: Marco van de Voort <marcov at stack.nl>
To: Michael Van Canneyt <michael at freepascal.org>
Cc: Marco van de Voort <marcov at stack.nl>
Subject: Re: [fpc-devel] Interface delegation fix: backport to FPC 2.4.2 ...?

In our previous episode, Michael Van Canneyt said:
>
> It's not because you don't see a need, that others don't have it;
> there is no point in discussing that, we will never agree on that.
> Just like I don't discuss religion with people.

Well, there's your precedent problem, right there. Those are exactly the
arguments that are used for every language extension or deep system change.

Together with "it won't hurt that much", and "it really is only this time"
and "most people won't even notice".

> That is an impossibility, since then we cannot use it in the FCL/LCL, which
> is one of the requirements:

Well, if you are going to push this through pigheaded, there is nothing more
to discuss, isn't it?

> So please propose something else, something you concede is not the
> optimal solution, but which you are prepared to accept, lacking the
> optimal solution.

I do not see one. If one puts you one cm of a wall and says not to question
that position, but to find a solution, you simply don't have much working
space.