Isn't Delphi compatibility a major ongoing goal of both FPC and Lazarus, though?
On Fri, Jul 20, 2018 at 10:01 AM, R0b0t1 <r03...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Jul 20, 2018 at 12:20 AM, Sven Barth via fpc-pascal > <fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org> wrote: > > Am 20.07.2018 um 00:53 schrieb Ben Grasset: > >> > >> If a feature works as intended and is useful (which is all that > matters), > >> how is it "blind copying"? > > > > Because a feature might change the language in a way that's not in the > > spirit of the language. Look at how Delphi implemented attributes: > they're > > declared in front of the types, fields, parameters, whatever, simply > copied > > from how C# implemented them while in the spirit of Pascal they should > have > > been *after* the declarations. > > > > This is what bothers me about some of the Delphi extensions that are > requested, but also some things that are already in FPC. And like > other people have said: now it's too late. It's there forever, or a > length of time that is just as good when talking about software. > > It's not to say all of these things are bad - it's just I wish more > thought would have gone into them. Perhaps that would mean changing > the feature so much that it doesn't resemble what was originally > proposed. > > Cheers, > R0b0t1 > _______________________________________________ > fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org > http://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal >
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