On Sun, 15 Mar 2009, Francisco Reyes wrote:
> Tomas Hajny writes: > > > I'm not sure if Francisco meant the Reference Guide or possibly some > > examples appearing in the other documents; > > I was looking specifically about the rtl pdf. > > > >if it's the latter, a more concrete example would be probably useful. > > Where are the examples? I recall seem them in the past, but can't find them > now. Only the RTL units have examples in them. FCL units do not, and the classes unit also do not have them any more. The reason is 2-fold: - Time - More complex concepts require more complex examples. > > Also as I become more serious about FPC what would be the recommended order of > reading the docs? > > I have: > prog.pdf ref.pdf rtl.pdf user.pdf > Want to go over them in the coming week. I like to read as much as I can > before jumping into more serious development. Right now doing a couple of > simple utilities partly because I need them for work and partly to re-learn > pascal. I don't think it is possible to give an order. Normally I would think user ref prog and the rtl/fcl as you need them. > > > eyes of a newcomer as suggested by Francisco. I don't think that the places > > I found (including the dedicated chapter for exceptions in the Reference > > Guide) make this rule very obvious, so there may be some room for > > improvement > > Just looked at that part in the reference and agree that it could at least > mention it needs delphi or objectpascal modes. I will do so. > > > allowing to change the mode, but the newcomer may not even know / understand > > that he should be interested in changing the compiler mode > > Exactly. Specially newcomers may have a good chance to not know what documents > and in what order they need to read them. > I think it may be a bit easier for someone coming from Delphi, but someone > just starting out, may not even know that exception handling is object pascal > and not part of the standard pascal. Like I said, I will add some sentences/paragraphs about this. Michael. _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
