Translation of blog post http://www.stolyarov.info/node/290 from Ru to
En.
Sep 6 2020.
Author: Andrey Stolyarov, author of Ru books about programming.
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I'm trying to convince FPC men to finally fix SeekEof:
https://forum.lazarus.freepascal.org/index.php/topic,51353.0.html
Tellingly, I even sent them a fix. Proven fix, Carl! One strange man has
already run in (Jonas Maebe). It feels like receiving replies from
officials. I wonder if everyone is like that, or is there still a
reasonable person? Or maybe I got into the wrong place, I don't need to
go to the forum, but immediately to the bugtracker?
UPD: I reported in the bug tracker:
https://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=37716 (
https://gitlab.com/freepascal.org/fpc/source/-/issues/37716 ) Place your
bets, I'll still have to write in the new edition of the book that the
numbers from the text stream can be read correctly only
character-by-character, or they will fix it.
UPD2: I received a response from someone in the bug tracker. I made a
patch according to their rules. Submit. We stock up on popcorn.
UPD3: Christmas trees, where do such people come from and how is Free
Pascal still alive with such a team?! And, most importantly, what to do
now? I'm sorry, I won't be able to fork this monster, it's easier to
write my own Pascal compiler, but it's not for one year of work.
UPD4: https://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=37833 (
https://gitlab.com/freepascal.org/fpc/source/-/issues/37833 )- now we
will convince them to fix the consequences of their fix, which "fixes"
what is not broken. By God, if it weren't for the fact that there are
simply no other implementations of Pascal, I would have spat on these
comrades a long time ago. Sometimes it is easier for students (and what
is there sometimes, just almost always) to explain what and how than to
this stubborn character. This time, it's a little worse that I can't
provide a ready-made patch - well, I probably can, but there are damn
changes in git, it will be difficult to isolate among them those that
this alternatively professional comrade made.
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In the comments of that post:
Q (reader): Judging by the state of the ticket, has success been
achieved?
A (Stolyarov): To be honest, it's not clear - you'll have to pull out a
snapshot and see. I really hope that this Tomas Hajny didn't understand
what happens when you open a text stream and ended up not being able to
do what he wanted to do -- cut off buffering for anything that isn't a
file. If he succeeded, then "the victory has some strange taste" -
SeekEof seems to have been fixed to us, but in general it has become
even worse than before. To be honest, I didn't expect to encounter such
a level of militant ignorance.
UPD: I looked. So yes. I don't even know what's worse - what happened
before this "fix" or what happened after. It is quite difficult to do
without the correct SeekEof, but you can - for example, read everything
character by character and translate numbers with pens. But when
buffering is turned off for output, it is impossible to turn it on from
inside the program, no means are provided for this. The devil knows
what.
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