[fpc-devel] Syntax choice (was: Blocks support)

[Sven Barth]

Am 21.07.2014 18:15 schrieb "Dmitry Boyarintsev" <skalogryz.lists at gmail.com
>:
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> On Sun, Jul 20, 2014 at 6:28 PM, Jonas Maebe <jonas.maebe at elis.ugent.be>
wrote:
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>> It's also a similar concept (you have a pointer to something that
describes a function), but it's incompatible and different so you need a
different syntax. Any different syntax is fine, as far as I'm concerned.
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> It's just my personal appeal to reuse as many of existing
reserved/context words as possible. (In which case "is block" seems better
to me, than "reference to"... just because its less typing, though too
"block"-specific)

The point is that we'll need the "reference to" anyway for Delphi
compatibility. Otherwise I agree that Pascal normally uses suffixes...

Regards,
Sven
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