[fpc-devel] fpc iso mode

Sven Barth pascaldragon at googlemail.com
Wed Feb 3 22:38:20 CET 2016


On 03.02.2016 20:07, Tomas Hajny wrote:
> On Wed, February 3, 2016 20:00, Sven Barth wrote:
>> On 03.02.2016 16:58, Schindler Karl-Michael wrote:
>  .
>  .
>>> How about his suggestion about renaming the mode to iso7185? Too late?
>>
>> We could maybe add iso7185 as an alternative to iso and deprecate the
>> latter...
>>
>>> How about calling ExtendedPascal iso10206 instead of extpas?
>>
>> Since Extended Pascal supported is only in trunk that would be no
>> problem...
> 
> Not really important for me personally, but I wonder: Would all/most
> potential users remember the ISO standard numbers when typing command line
> parameters, or is it better to include the ISO number just in the help
> pages and documentation, but keep the mode name as it is to simplify it
> for users?

Yeah, that's a thought I had as well. Then again those two modes are
probably only going to be used by people who know what they're doing... :/

Regards,
Sven




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