[fpc-devel] New FPC language/dialect MODE, Generics.Collections and new branch

[Steve Hildebrandt]

Am 17.07.2015 um 09:36 schrieb Michael Van Canneyt:
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> On Fri, 17 Jul 2015, Maciej Izak wrote:
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>> 2015-07-17 9:10 GMT+02:00 Michael Van Canneyt:
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>>       I think you better choose some more neutral name: GenPas or so.
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>> IMO GenPas is good name.
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> I have my moments of inspiration ;)
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>>       You are free to do so, no-one will stop you. Your work will 
>> surely be integrated.
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>>       But I advise against it: The Pascal community is splintered as 
>> it is: FPC, Delphi, Oxygene. Creating another dialect will not help, 
>> because your code will only be usable in that dialect.
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>> I don't want to introduce too many new syntax elements, only best 
>> possible combination of existing dialects elements. In the new 
>> dialect we can clean up few things. The main ideas of new dialect -> 
>> less
>> is more and KISS.
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> Many, if not most, language constructs in the compiler are 
> enabled/disabled through some modeswitch:
> {$MODESWITCH XYZ}
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> I think that the best that can be done is make sure all dialect 
> elements can be enabled/disabled using a modeswitch.
> The {$MODE XYZ} directive then just needs to set a pre-defined set of 
> modeswitches.
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> IMHO It will save you work if you go about it this way...
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> Michael.
Since some work is already done in this direktion and since somone, who 
likes another flavor better, is able to also benifit from such changes I 
would rekommend to work in that direction.

Greets Steve