[fpc-devel] Delphi anonymous methods

Marco van de Voort marcov at stack.nl
Tue Mar 5 12:38:17 CET 2013


In our previous episode, Alexander Klenin said:
> >> not only do we have to keep backwards compatibility, but the Delphi
> >> syntax is a nightmare to parse.
> >
> > But you need to anyway because of mode delphi, so what is the point?
> 
> It is hard to parse for humans as well as for the compiler.

That's a matter of taste. I'm not sb who in general favours terse notation,
but I don't really see the benefit of the FPC syntax for humans.



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