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

[Ralf A. Quint]

At 01:18 AM 8/30/2012, Arioch wrote:

>tcoq wrote
> >
> >  a laziness to software design: what you can't name you actually don't
> > design...
> >
>Guess you meant "don't want to" instead of "can't"
>And You mean all the non-named arrays, don't you.
>
>"var x: array[0..10] of integer; " is not only violating Pascal Report, but
>also is twice lazy.
>since one should name every part of design one should type like
>
>type
>     SomeEnumSemanticName = 0..10;
>     SomeEnumMapSemanticName = array[SomeEnumSemanticName] of integer;
>var x: SomeEnumMapSemanticName;
>
>That has a point, for self-documenting if nothing else. But i don't believe
>it is practically that pervasive as your stated maxima would assume.

Sorry, but that example of yours is silly at best. Someone who has 
learned to program in Pascal should be able write clearly 
understandable programs, not obfuscate just for 'the heck of it'.
But then common sense seems to have turned into a rare commodity these days.

Pascal has evolved since Wirth's original design back in the 70s, 
nobody is writing serious programs in the original defined language 
set anymore, I dare to day that even ISO Pascal is not all that 
useful for real life programs anymore.

A lot of extensions, like units or (objects in general) that you 
mentioned have been done in a way that still leave the very basics of 
Pascal intact.
But all the fluff that you (and others) are proposing all the time 
just aim at completely change the language for no other than 
self-serving reasons and that's why people rightfully oppose such proposals...

Ralf