[fpc-pascal] Syntax changes suggestions

[Ben Grasset]

Isn't Delphi compatibility a major ongoing goal of both FPC and Lazarus,
though?

On Fri, Jul 20, 2018 at 10:01 AM, R0b0t1 <r030t1 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Jul 20, 2018 at 12:20 AM, Sven Barth via fpc-pascal
> <fpc-pascal at lists.freepascal.org> wrote:
> > Am 20.07.2018 um 00:53 schrieb Ben Grasset:
> >>
> >> If a feature works as intended and is useful (which is all that
> matters),
> >> how is it "blind copying"?
> >
> > Because a feature might change the language in a way that's not in the
> > spirit of the language. Look at how Delphi implemented attributes:
> they're
> > declared in front of the types, fields, parameters, whatever, simply
> copied
> > from how C# implemented them while in the spirit of Pascal they should
> have
> > been *after* the declarations.
> >
>
> This is what bothers me about some of the Delphi extensions that are
> requested, but also some things that are already in FPC. And like
> other people have said: now it's too late. It's there forever, or a
> length of time that is just as good when talking about software.
>
> It's not to say all of these things are bad - it's just I wish more
> thought would have gone into them. Perhaps that would mean changing
> the feature so much that it doesn't resemble what was originally
> proposed.
>
> Cheers,
>      R0b0t1
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