> Micha Nelissen said: > > FPC will never support this, AFAIK. It doesn't really add anything new, it > > just shortens the code somewhat. Only in toy examples is it nice, > > Could you expand this answer to cover the reasons why people might use > Pascal rather than assembly language? Your argument seems to advocate > using the lowest level language available...
> I'm a big fan of compact code and language features that promote it. > Give me "StringList.SaveToFile()" any day over the laborious code > that starts "var F:TextFile;" ( A.S. These don't have the same properties. Using basic I/O one can work with textfiles larger than the (virtual) memory. With stringlist there always must be full in memory loading. Moreover stringlists get painfully slow over a few ten thousand lines. ) However stringlist _adds_ something. You can really do stuff in a few lines that takes tons of manual coding. FOR IN on the other hand saves only two lines of plain typing, something that could even be compensated with a small Lazarus codetools "generate construct" macro. Moreover stringlist doesn't need compiler support to do it. _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
