[fpc-pascal] Delphi compatible anonymous functions

[Dmitry Boyarintsev]

On Mon, May 26, 2014 at 12:17 PM, Craig Peterson
<craig at scootersoftware.com>wrote:

>  Dmitry, no offense, but you're making a lot of assumptions about our
> code with no basis to do so, and I'm honestly not interested in getting
> into a philosophical debate about the "correct" way to develop software.
> There are cases where anonymous methods will work well and cases where
> we'll have to split it up.  It's a tool that I'd like to have available,
> not something I'm going to cram where it doesn't belong.
>

That's very valid point. I do not know how your code, I don't know who is
based and organized.
So I have to go from my experience on how the problems (with UI) are solved.

I also have a vast experience of (language/libraries) tools being misused
and underused.
(My fear here is that anonymous functions will be misused dramatically once
being available. And I'm fine with that for C-syntax languages, but I'd
hate to handle in future for Pascal)

My general point is - in many cases (pascal) language is underused. And
many problems could be solved without a new language constructions. Use the
reasonable minimum as much as possible.
So sticking to an existing syntax minimum improves portability of the code
(portability not just across platforms and/or compilers, but for
integration with different 3d-party libraries).

You've done your considerations and you've done your choice, so let's wait
until anonymous functions are available in FPC.

thanks,
Dmitry
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