Re: [fpc-devel] type discussion

2005-06-04 Thread Jamie McCracken
Danny Milosavljevic wrote: you *might* have less overhead using ref count on a tstringlist then making it a component (if you are creating more than one reference to it or passing it as a parameter to a function then yes a component would be more efficient). You also have the problem of what y

Re: [fpc-devel] type discussion

2005-06-04 Thread Danny Milosavljevic
Hi, Am Samstag, den 04.06.2005, 16:02 +0100 schrieb Jamie McCracken: > Danny Milosavljevic wrote: > > > > I'd suggest creating tlist, tstringlist, tfilestream-like things with an > > optional owner (TComponent-like). I've been programming delphi for > > years, and trust me, I know how annoying ke

Re: [fpc-devel] Build 2.0.0 documentation in html format

2005-06-04 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Sat, 4 Jun 2005, Joost van der Sluis wrote: > Hi all, > > before I start re-inventing the wheel I ask it here: > > If I try to build the documentation using latex2html it complains that > ref.htex coudn't be found. > > If I change the makefile manually so that it uses ref.tex etc I get the

Re: [fpc-devel] Build 2.0.0 documentation in html format

2005-06-04 Thread Marco van de Voort
> > If I change the makefile manually so that it uses ref.tex etc I get the > following: make examples maybe? Do you run make pdf ? Or in a desperate case run make or make pdf in refex/ > And does anyone knows a way to build the .pdf's without changing the > memory-buffer in a configuration fi

[fpc-devel] Build 2.0.0 documentation in html format

2005-06-04 Thread Joost van der Sluis
Hi all, before I start re-inventing the wheel I ask it here: If I try to build the documentation using latex2html it complains that ref.htex coudn't be found. If I change the makefile manually so that it uses ref.tex etc I get the following: make[1]: Entering directory `/local/rpmbuild/BUILD/fp

Re: [fpc-devel] type discussion

2005-06-04 Thread Jamie McCracken
Danny Milosavljevic wrote: I'd suggest creating tlist, tstringlist, tfilestream-like things with an optional owner (TComponent-like). I've been programming delphi for years, and trust me, I know how annoying keeping track of tlist memory is (and I mean _annoying like [EMAIL PROTECTED] hell_ :)).

Re: [fpc-devel] David Intersimone Interview about Freepascal and Lazarus!!!

2005-06-04 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Fri, 3 Jun 2005, Florian Klaempfl wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > David Intersimone Interview about Freepascal and Lazarus!!! > > > > http://www.bitwisemag.com/media/video/iv/davidi_june2005/davidi_interview_delphi.wmv > > Who is David Intersimone :)? He is the Borland "Developer

Re: [fpc-devel] type discussion

2005-06-04 Thread Danny Milosavljevic
Hi, Am Samstag, den 04.06.2005, 08:53 +0200 schrieb Hans-Peter Diettrich: > Jamie McCracken wrote: > > > > Garbage collection is largely no issue when using the Owner concept in > > > TComponent, using TObjectList, etc. > > > > True and thats why I suggested ref counting Tobjects only so that n

[fpc-devel] Bug 4004

2005-06-04 Thread Colin Western
Can I ask somebody to have another look at this bug - it was flagged unreproducable on the web system, but I still get it from the current svn as shown below. (Note that the orginal report was on ppc but I have the same fault on i386) Colin $ fpc ord.pas Free Pascal Compiler version 2.1.1 [2005

Re: Modern Pascal Dialect [was Re: [fpc-devel] Re: [fpc-l] type discussion]

2005-06-04 Thread Nico Aragón
El Sábado, 4 de Junio de 2005 12:02, Jamie McCracken escribió: > Nico Aragón wrote: > > I've been playing with the same concept for years, so I think I do have > > some advice :-) The preprocessor is the right step to start > > Which the compiler's internal preprocessor or your external preprocesso

Re: Modern Pascal Dialect [was Re: [fpc-devel] Re: [fpc-l] type discussion]

2005-06-04 Thread Jamie McCracken
Nico Aragón wrote: El Sábado, 4 de Junio de 2005 11:00, Jamie McCracken escribió: I had thought of that but thats problematic for debugging. IE the compiler returns line numbers for errors and they will not match if I use an external preprocessor. See the recent thread "How to manually contr

Re: Modern Pascal Dialect [was Re: [fpc-devel] Re: [fpc-l] type discussion]

2005-06-04 Thread Nico Aragón
El Sábado, 4 de Junio de 2005 11:00, Jamie McCracken escribió: > > I had thought of that but thats problematic for debugging. IE the > compiler returns line numbers for errors and they will not match if I > use an external preprocessor. See the recent thread "How to manually control debug informat

Modern Pascal Dialect [was Re: [fpc-devel] Re: [fpc-l] type discussion]

2005-06-04 Thread Jamie McCracken
Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote: You obviously missed that a compiler does not only consist of scanner and parser, but that optimizers and code generators also have to be implemented. For multiple target platforms and CPU's... The new dialect simply makes the syntax less annoying and verbose - it