[fpc-pascal] Bridging FPC and Delphi

[Florian Klaempfl]

Anthony Walter schrieb:
> I was on freenode irc #fpc earlier and asked some questions but not
> enough people were online to get an answer.
> 
> My question was/is:
> 
> **** Will there ever again come a point where FPC attempts to bring in
> more compatibility with Delphi? 

Nobody can predict if sometimes in the future somebody will contribute a
patch regarding this.

> Specifically, in regards to operator
> overloading and generic language syntax. ****
> 
> I'd really like to use generics in my cross platform graphic widgets
> toolkit and have it continue to work with both Delphi and FPC, but as of
> right I can't tolerate the enormous amounts of {$IFDEFs} required to do so.
> 
> For those interested, here is a video showcasing a very old version
> (circa 2004) of my toolkit. Compiles on Windows (Delphi 7) and Linux (FPC).
> 
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqeFZ2zhszU
> 
> Screens from my picture browser (circa 2006) :
> 
> http://imagebot.org/snapshops/photo-grid-animate.jpg
> http://imagebot.org/snapshops/3d-picture-gallery.jpg
> 
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