[fpc-pascal].NET opinions?

[Jonas Maebe]

On dinsdag, augustus 20, 2002, at 09:44 , Peter H.M. Brooks wrote:

>>> Why should either back end add limitations?
>>
>> Because e.g. Java doesn't know the concept of pointers, so you can't
>> compile anything that uses pointers.
>>
> True, so code that is produced to run on the interpreter can't use 
> them, but
> that doesn't mean that it can't interact with code that does.

Indeed, but the backend that creates such code will have the limitation: 
it simply cannot generate byte code that does such things, so the 
frontend would also have to reject it in that case.


Jonas