[fpc-pascal] Delphi compatible anonymous functions

[Craig Peterson]

> On May 26, 2014, at 2:52 AM, Michael Schnell <mschnell at lumino.de> wrote:
> I understand that "anonymous functions" is some kind of "syntax candy" for stuff that - with some additional typing - could be done without, "OpenMP support" is about allowing parallel work - especially useful on the now ubiquitous multi-processor boxes - by means of the rtl. "parallel loop" and "future" is about syntax candy for parallel execution  - e.g. via OpenMP.
> 
> So my question was about the real target of the discussion.

I am interested in anonymous functions specifically.  See my second post in the thread for why.  OpenMP support would be a nice feature, but even if it were Delphi/VCL compatible, it only gets me half of my goal, and I only included the threading support first because it was shorter to describe.  Replacing our usage of fibers/coroutines is a *much* more pressing issue.

In any case, neither Free Pascal nor Delphi support OpenMP right now, but Delphi does support futures and parallel loops using the OmniThreadLibrary, which requires anonymous methods.  Getting anonymous methods into Free Pascal is a much more manageable short term goal than waiting for OpenMP support to be specified, implemented, and debugged.

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Craig Peterson
Scooter Software