[fpc-pascal] Default record fields

[Ryan Joseph]

> On Jun 22, 2018, at 9:12 PM, Karoly Balogh (Charlie/SGR) <charlie at scenergy.dfmk.hu> wrote:
> 
> Well, true. Sorry if I sounded too rude. But both threads he started
> sounded a bit like "this is broken in the language, so lets fix it", where
> I beg to differ.

I can’t help with higher level stuff because I don’t know how the compiler works well enough. Optimizations as well are way over my head.

I’ve been using Pascal for over 20 years now and in that time the language itself has changed, computers have changed and even I’ve changed. The language isn’t broken but there should be easier ways to accomplish some tasks. I didn’t even think about it until I saw other languages do it better and then wondered why we aren’t doing the same thing.

I didn’t think that was a controversial statement to make. I really thought people wanted macros with parameters and I’m shocked again to find that default record fields may be widely despised also, but that’s why I’m asking.

Regards,
	Ryan Joseph