[fpc-devel] fpc modifiers

[Florian Klaempfl]

Am 29.04.2011 00:02, schrieb Joerg Schuelke:
> Am Thu, 28 Apr 2011 23:39:35 +0200
> schrieb Hans-Peter Diettrich<DrDiettrich1 at aol.com>:
>
>> The bug resides in the dirty Delphi OPL definition.
>>
> Is it a bug or unspecified behavior? I think it is implemented in the
> hope it works good enough.
>
> If you consume a<modifier>  token as<modifier>  or<identifier>  in
> respect of the right context of one token, you get rid of this strange
> behavior and you will get a real superset of the former language.
>
> So, why not doing it?

The FPC scanner is simply not designed for a look ahead > 1. Especially 
macro and include file expansion as well as generics require probably a 
major rewrite of the scanner.