On Sun, 2005-03-20 at 02:55 +0200, Nikolay Nikolov wrote: > ml wrote: > > >Other possibilities like ['?','%','$','|','&','::','^'] were only named > >under btw. (and how can btw. under question 2 become the main flaming > >topic is out of my reason, maybe its time to my annual lobotomy) > > > > > Well, mentioning C-isms in a pascal forum may sometimes lead to flames > :) (Yes, it was a c-ism, for example operator '::' exists only in C++.) > And btw some of these characters are already used in fpc. '$' is for hex > values ($deadbeef), '%' - for binary (%101010) and '&' - for octal > (&666). '^' is used for dereferencing pointers (p^.something := 5). >
:) %$& you're right. But you're wrong for '::' '::' exists in perl too. Other C operator is '|' (again this one exists in perl) which is or in C. But then again someone could say that both are a nice way to express delimiters. I'm not really much of pascal lover, I'm just practical. I just use something when it is clean, logical and usable for the purpose. So if that's the case as you described it (about c flames), then either pascal has no future, or it is very very dark. Because not even one tool is not usable for all purposes. > >3. Interface multiple inheritance. Asking just for a reason why not, for > >sole curiosity. I solved that for my self with macros. Thanks to Nikolay > >at least I think I got that one answered (he responded with negative > >reason enough). And I must say that as I read his answer, I started > >finding the way to implement them, without bothering devel team. It is > >doable, ugly but doable. Just as I implemented foreach(). > > > > > Keep in mind, that I'm not a FPC developer. I've just noticed that > delphi compatibility is a top priority for the FPC developers, so that's > why interfaces are done this way. I never said what you're asking for > will never be done in the future, I just explained why is it isn't done > now. When the FPC devels added interfaces, they probably added them with > Delphi compatibility in mind. That would also be an answer for your > question about properties in interfaces, too. Delphi 1 and 2 didn't have > interfaces at all. So the VCL doesn't really rely on interfaces. Then > Delphi 3 introduced (COM) interfaces. Please note that at that time they > didn't support properties at all. Some delphi versions later, the > borland guys decided to add properties to interfaces, so you're kinda > lucky that there are properties in interfaces at all :) > Yep, and I thanked you for that. Yours was the only usable reply all others were just a bunch of flaming without knowing the question (as soon as I read it I started looking for some other solution). Thanks again. ml > _______________________________________________ > fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org > http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
