[fpc-pascal] Delphi mode for new features?

[Serguei TARASSOV]

On 01/07/2015 17:08, fpc-pascal-request at lists.freepascal.org wrote:
> Date: Wed, 01 Jul 2015 16:54:30 +0200
> From: Jonas Maebe<jonas.maebe at elis.ugent.be>
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> Subject: Re: [fpc-pascal] Delphi mode for new features?
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> Serguei TARASSOV wrote on Wed, 01 Jul 2015:
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>> >As I see (may be mistaken), some_new_  Delphi features are available
>> >only in $MODE DELPHI.
>> >This way lead to divergence of two compilers.
>> >
>> >Why do not implement them in FPC "by default" (when it not
>> >constrained by basic concepts and legacy code) to take the road of
>> >convergence?
> Such new Delphi features are only enabled by default in FPC modes if
> we consider them to not run counter to the spirit of Pascal. That's
> obviously subjective, but so is Embarcadero's decision to introduce
> them. There will never be convergence, because Embarcadero is not
> interested in that.
Sorry, I didn't understand your point.
Out of Embarcadero subject, if 100% convergence is not possible why do 
divergence?
Are you agreed that more FPC is compatible with Delphi "by default", 
more users can use it without troubles and learning additional docs?

>
>> >I.e. record functions/constructors may reduce the code and make it more safe.
> You can use {$modeswitch advancedrecords} to enable them in any
> non-Delphi syntax mode
> (http://www.freepascal.org/docs-html/prog/progsu106.html  ). Virtually
> all new language features we add these days can be selectively enabled
> and disabled via mode switches.
This is a good example of complicating the life.
"One option by feature" to activate every new language feature lead to 
growth of end-user documentation and using $MODE DELPHI when it is not 
required at all.

In the perfect world $MODE DELPHI should be required only to compile 
same unit in both Delphi and FPC.
Why move away this perfect world?

Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated 
simple is hard, that's creativity.

Regards,
Serguei