On 06 Nov 2011, at 15:13, dmitry boyarintsev wrote:

> Hi-jacking, the thread, and again should FPC chase Delphi forever?

If we want to offer compatibility with source code written for Delphi, which 
does happen to be one of FPC's project goals, then yes, we do have to do that 
to some extent.

> Now, FPC has provided support for ObjC interface, and Delphi is using
> that,

Delphi is only using it for iOS (because they don't have their own ARM compiler 
yet). They are using a different way to interface with Objective-C that does 
not use the FPC syntax with their Mac OS X compiler. In fact, they reportedly 
do it without extending the language in any way, by basing it on dynamic 
dispatch similar to COM interfaces. That in itself is a good argument for not 
adopting FPC's syntax: if you can do something without extending the language, 
it's almost always the better option.

> so maybe it will (and should) be otherwise - Delphi is to
> provide syntax support for FPC?

What Delphi /should/ do is a useless discussion on the FPC lists. If you insist 
on doing it anyway, please move it to fpc-other.


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