[fpc-pascal] fpc-pascal Digest, Vol 133, Issue 4

[Serguei TARASSOV]

On 03/07/2015 11:22, fpc-pascal-request at lists.freepascal.org wrote:
> Date: Thu, 02 Jul 2015 13:30:07 +0200
> From: Jonas Maebe<jonas.maebe at elis.ugent.be>
> To: FPC-Pascal users discussions<fpc-pascal at lists.freepascal.org>
> Subject: Re: [fpc-pascal] Delphi mode for new features?
>
> We can't help that. FPC supported operator overloading long before Delphi did.
Yes, and I consider that it was implemented more clear and properly in 
FPC than in Delphi.
>
> I still don't understand this argument. If you want to compile a unit
> both with FPC and Delphi, develop the code in Delphi (so you don't
> accidentally use FPC-specific routines from the FPC RTL) and use
> {$mode delphi} to compile it in FPC. Of course you can't use
> FPC-specific features if you want to compile your code also with
> Delphi, just like you can't use GCC-specific features if you want to
> compile your code also with MSVC.
My point is "in the perfect world we don't need to use {$MODE DELPHI} 
for common use of both compilers and framework cores".
So we should use subset of FPC/Delphi languages (in the perfect world 
Delphi is a subset of FPC).
Every convergence make subset bigger. And vice versa.

There are many years ago I used GCC/MSVC for cross-platform dev and if 
you follow the standard (with isolating platform-specific code), the 
problems go away in many cases.

The strong point of C/C++ is the standard.
Maybe will see it for (Object, Free,...) Pascal too.

Regards,
Serguei