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

[Lukasz Sokol]

On 30/08/2012 09:04, Arioch wrote:
> 
> 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.
> 

You seem to be very rigid over your view of Pascal yourself.
With everything you quoted above (but pointer math) Pascal 
is not a toy language any more; unfortunately many recall it
as such and keep pondering about the P language...

(hey, I first had programming classes in middle school
on TP6.0 when the strongest machine in computer class was a 386SX 16MHz;
that the teacher had, we banged on 286...
we had some intro to (Borland) C(++) later on, 
but after Pascal, C seemed so obfuscated, I gave up on it and
only write small C programs for microcontrollers where it is
as rigid as Pascal :J )

MvC has a point in saying 'pointer math is what spoils it' - 
pointer math is itself a 'feature' dragged into C++ from 
'c', the verbose assembler :J 

L.