I still fail to see where annonymous functions could succeed where functional types (part of pascal since last millenia) wouldnt...
2012/8/30 Ralf A. Quint <free...@gmx.net>: > At 01:18 AM 8/30/2012, Arioch wrote: > >> tcoq wrote >> > >> > a laziness to software design: what you can't name you actually don't >> > design... >> > >> Guess you meant "don't want to" instead of "can't" >> And You mean all the non-named arrays, don't you. >> >> "var x: array[0..10] of integer; " is not only violating Pascal Report, >> but >> also is twice lazy. >> since one should name every part of design one should type like >> >> type >> SomeEnumSemanticName = 0..10; >> SomeEnumMapSemanticName = array[SomeEnumSemanticName] of integer; >> var x: SomeEnumMapSemanticName; >> >> That has a point, for self-documenting if nothing else. But i don't >> believe >> it is practically that pervasive as your stated maxima would assume. > > > Sorry, but that example of yours is silly at best. Someone who has learned > to program in Pascal should be able write clearly understandable programs, > not obfuscate just for 'the heck of it'. > But then common sense seems to have turned into a rare commodity these days. > > Pascal has evolved since Wirth's original design back in the 70s, nobody is > writing serious programs in the original defined language set anymore, I > dare to day that even ISO Pascal is not all that useful for real life > programs anymore. > > A lot of extensions, like units or (objects in general) that you mentioned > have been done in a way that still leave the very basics of Pascal intact. > But all the fluff that you (and others) are proposing all the time just aim > at completely change the language for no other than self-serving reasons and > that's why people rightfully oppose such proposals... > > Ralf > _______________________________________________ > 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
