Hi Marco, I found your answers to my naive questions really interesting. And certainly I agree. Would it be possible to make them more visible on the web site of Free Pascal? In practice, include the texts you pointed to (iso-ansi discussion and delphilater) in the web site? Or did I missed them?
A few comments before I turn back to work. I think that Modern Pascal is not so fuzzy. Indeed my feeling is also that the Free Pascal community plus CodeGear's Delphi constitutes most of what is today Modern or Object Pascal. So the current implementations (FPC2.2 and Delphi2008?) are making the langage. If this is so, there is no point to discuss a standard. As much as I can see, the situation, in practice, is analogous to Sun and Java. Only that CodeGear is not going to collaborate anyhow with Free Pascal. If there is something like a "reference" it is rather Delphi. In the sense that the FPC try to be compatible with Delphi. Considering that who wants a standard wants to write a code as independant of a given compiler, the question resumes to write code that can be easily ported between Delphi and Free Pascal. The answer shall be to write it Delphi6/7 compliant and forget about .NET. This is only how I see things. An important addition is that "Delphi extensions are examined (...) if it fits FPC tradition...". I believe you refer to this text? http://www.stack.nl/~marcov/delphilater.txt I understood also that programing concepts are more elaborate into FPC. You stated that generic classes (isn't it?) for instance, are already implemented while they are only scheduled in Delphi. While most exclusive features of Delphi are related to .NET functions. In that sense, it is relevant to port Delphi code to Free Pascal but it might be hasardous to port Free Pascal code on Delphi... Concerning .NET, the concept is useless for a compiler that is far more crossplatform than the Microsoft's framework will ever be. Thanks again for your kind answers. Gilles Marcou _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
