[fpc-pascal] Default record fields

[Rainer Stratmann]

Am Freitag, 22. Juni 2018, 16:03:28 schrieb Marcos Douglas B. Santos:
> On Fri, Jun 22, 2018 at 12:59 PM, Ralf Quint <freedos.la at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 6/22/2018 4:19 AM, Karoly Balogh (Charlie/SGR) wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >> 
> >> On Fri, 22 Jun 2018, Ryan Joseph wrote:
> >>> I want to do a pivot away from the macro stuff to ask another question.
> >>> Since I’ve wanted to contribute to the compiler for so long and I
> >>> finally have a little understanding I’d like to know if there’s anything
> >>> minor I could do, that isn’t offensive to the compiler team.
> >> 
> >> <rant>It's not about the compiler team. It's about the integrity of a
> >> programming language, which doesn't matter these days a lot, when all
> >> languages turned into a feature race to provide the same broken concepts,
> >> but with slightly different syntax. Nevermind. I sometimes do not even
> >> understand how people did stuff for 50 years without
> >> TObjectClassAdvancedTemplateGenericRecordRTTI...</rant>
> > 
> > +1
> > It's not (only/just) what "the compiler team" wants. There are people
> > actually using the compiler. For real life purposes.
> > And a lot of what people are proposing, over and over again, are solutions
> > for problems that nobody has (in real life)...
> 
> +1
> It is better to have a simple language with packages/libs to do the (real)
> job than a complex language that try doing anything that someone could
> imagine or want to do.
> 
Yes, you can already do almost everything you want with freepascal.
Keep it easy.