[fpc-pascal] Re: Delphi's anonymous functions in Free Pascal

[Arioch]

Ralf A. Quint wrote
> 
> At 12:09 AM 8/30/2012, michael.vancanneyt@ wrote:
>>They are IMHO a negation of what pascal stands for. If your programming
> +1
> 

Well, the same should be told about everything modern pascal is.

Open and dynamic arrays, pointer math, objects, generics, even units.
It was all breaking the initial Pascal strictness and rigidness.

Because what was counted "large blocks" deserving their own explicit naming
back then - now seems trivial small detail.

Generics are alien to Pascal no more no less than closures.



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