On Mon, Jul 23, 2018 at 11:11 AM, Ryan Joseph
<r...@thealchemistguild.com> wrote:
>
>
>> On Jul 22, 2018, at 4:54 AM, Sven Barth via fpc-pascal
>> <fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org> wrote:
>>
>> And that's why there are people who *do* care about it. Of course you can
>> put everything and the kitchen think into a language. But if it doesn't fit
>> the language than you'll simply end up with a melting pot that doesn't feel
>> coherent. Also while people might not consciously think about the spirit of
>> the language I think they'll feel if the language is coherent with itself or
>> not.
>
> The spirit of the language is really hard to define in my opinion. I think we
> all agree that if we changed begin/end to {} we would all be offended but why
> again is “auto” not in the spirit of the language? It looks like Pascal to
> me. Calling Free at the end of blocks and inside destructors feels like
> Pascal to me.
>
> Telling the compiler to call it for me by typing “auto” instead of “Free”
> doesn’t feel non-pascal. I don’t get it.
>
> type
> TMyClass = class
> private
> list: TFPGList; auto;
> otherList: TFPGList; auto;
> end;
>
> var
> c: TMyClass; auto;
>
> begin
> c := TMyClass.Create;
>
This looks ugly. It also introduces modifiers to variable
declarations. Some features should not be part of the language, they
should be built on top of it.
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