[fpc-pascal] Syntax changes suggestions

[Ben Grasset]

How is auto more "ugly" than literally any other modifier in the entire
language? They're all just english words, of varying length. Also building
features on top of a language will always result in worse performance than
having them be a part of it.

On Wed, Jul 25, 2018 at 10:05 AM, R0b0t1 <r030t1 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 23, 2018 at 11:11 AM, Ryan Joseph
> <ryan at thealchemistguild.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> >> On Jul 22, 2018, at 4:54 AM, Sven Barth via fpc-pascal <
> fpc-pascal at lists.freepascal.org> wrote:
> >>
> >> And that's why there are people who *do* care about it. Of course you
> can put everything and the kitchen think into a language. But if it doesn't
> fit the language than you'll simply end up with a melting pot that doesn't
> feel coherent. Also while people might not consciously think about the
> spirit of the language I think they'll feel if the language is coherent
> with itself or not.
> >
> > The spirit of the language is really hard to define in my opinion. I
> think we all agree that if we changed begin/end to {} we would all be
> offended but why again is “auto” not in the spirit of the language? It
> looks like Pascal to me. Calling Free at the end of blocks and inside
> destructors feels like Pascal to me.
> >
> > Telling the compiler to call it for me by typing “auto” instead of
> “Free” doesn’t feel non-pascal. I don’t get it.
> >
> > type
> >         TMyClass = class
> >                 private
> >                         list: TFPGList; auto;
> >                         otherList: TFPGList; auto;
> >         end;
> >
> > var
> >         c: TMyClass; auto;
> >
> > begin
> >         c := TMyClass.Create;
> >
>
> This looks ugly. It also introduces modifiers to variable
> declarations. Some features should not be part of the language, they
> should be built on top of it.
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