On 07/10/2014 10:50 AM, Marco van de Voort wrote:
In our previous episode, Michael Schnell said:
Anyway "forking" fpc in such a way seems catastrophic.
We are not forking anything. We only accept the directive,
Great !

Of course offering the option to those who don't need compatibility is nice. But it never should be a default, encouraging users to create incompatible (non "pascalish") source code.
IMHO a substituting bad with worse is not a good reason.

I do see.

But as we all know, the "index" notation asks for never ending (and unsolvable) discussion about how "characters" are counted in all the different environments fpc supports.

-Michael
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