[fpc-pascal] C-blocks

[Sven Barth]

Am Do., 15. Nov. 2018, 08:39 hat Ryan Joseph <ryan at thealchemistguild.com>
geschrieben:

>
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> > On Nov 15, 2018, at 1:27 PM, Sven Barth via fpc-pascal <
> fpc-pascal at lists.freepascal.org> wrote:
> >
> > They are only useful when interacting with the external runtime. On
> other OSes nothing would support them thus there is no use for them.
> Additionally this requires extensive runtime, not to mention Objective C
> support.
> > There is even less sense in trying to port them as Object Pascal has
> anonymous functions which are already Work In Progress for FPC.
>
> I see, that’s too bad. Anonymous functions appear to be dead as far as I
> can tell. In progress since 2012 I think?
>

Unlike you I'm in active contact with the developer and the last message
was only a few months ago.


> Would it be permitted to add inline declarations of nested functions as a
> temporary replacement? They don’t capture state but at least they solve the
> issue of polluting namespace with named functions which you use in only one
> location. Better than nothing (since that’s what we’re realistically
> looking at) and no new complicated features.
>

No. This would conflict with the work of Blaise. Also even if we'd add that
now it would not make 3.2 as it would be a too invasive change. So the
earliest release would be 3.4 and for that I plan to have the real thing
integrated into trunk. Thus it would be wasted effort to add that now.

Regards,
Sven

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