[fpc-pascal] Re: StrUtils.RomanToInt oddities

[Marco van de Voort]

In our previous episode, Reinier Olislagers said:
> > 
> > Yes, but since the routine probably has low utilisation I choose for
> > structuring all conversion routines all the same.
> I would rather choose for maintaining backward compatiblity, the *de
> facto behaviour* (return 0 on invalid values) as it is quite sensible
> for this kind of numbers.

It is non-orthogonal.

> 
> > Moreover I don't think that first attempts should fixate interfaces
> > and behaviour forever.
> It's quite strange though that Delphi compatibility is quite insistently
> adhered to (BTW a good decision IMO).

Because that has an use. The internal FPC compatability, specially in the more
fringe areas like this, service no use than fattening maillist archives IMHO.