On 02/11/16 11:29, Jonas Maebe wrote:
On 02/11/16 12:09, Tony Whyman wrote:
It's an interesting concept i.e. if a bug exists in Delphi then it must
also exist in FPC. Perhaps a better alternative is to fix these sort of
bugs in FPC and to introduce a "full Dephi compatibility mode" i.e.
mode Delphi plus the bugs.
There is a difference between having a code construct that can be
compiled in one mode and not in another, and code that has different
behaviour in different modes. The former can be easily recognised, the
latter is much harder. In particular, it complicates reading code,
because you constantly have to be aware of the mode to know what the
code means. The same goes for changing behaviour across compiler
versions, and we have to do this way more often than I like.
There was a certain amount of sarcasm in my comment that perhaps got
lost in translation. I suggested introducing a "delphi with bugs" mode
to illustrate the absurdity of the idea. My point is that why should FPC
still feel constrained by Delphi? Let's get on and fix the bugs/features
that Delphi should have fixed long ago.
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