[fpc-pascal] About undocumented features

[Jonas Maebe]

On 10 Jun 2009, at 10:45, fpclist at silvermono.co.za wrote:

> What other "jewels" are hidden from "view"? Is there some  
> documentation
> documenting undocummented features that one can read?

That's sort of a contradictio in terminis :) I'm not aware of a list  
of "still to be documented features" either. It's best to file bug  
reports against the documentation when you encounter such omissions.

> As for compatibility with later releases of Delphi (2007 - 2009  
> etc), how far
> is FPC going to go?

Delphi 2009-style generic/unicode string support is planned, but other  
than that there are no fixed plans at this time afaik.

> While I don't know whether the FPC team envisage the FPC
> comiler morphing into FPC for .NET,

Unlikely, although a .NET code generator could always be added at one  
point.

> there are some compiler/language feature
> specific to .Net that I wouldn't mind having included in FPC. Some  
> features
> like sealed classes, class constants, class variables, static  
> constructors
> and destructors, to name a few.  Are there plans to implement such  
> features
> in FPC?

No concreate ones. They can always be added if someone is interested  
in doing the work and maintaining them, of course.


Jonas