Re: [fpc-devel] Sets > 256

2015-10-15 Thread Frederic Da Vitoria
2015-10-15 16:14 GMT+02:00 Michael Van Canneyt : > > On Thu, 15 Oct 2015, Frederic Da Vitoria wrote: > > 2015-10-15 14:58 GMT+02:00 DaWorm : >> >> On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 5:36 AM, Michael Schnell >>> wrote: >>> >>> (Not hitchhiking the other t

Re: [fpc-devel] Sets > 256

2015-10-15 Thread Frederic Da Vitoria
n the same thing, reals which changed format at least once in TP/Delphi's history, strings... Sure, we could stick with 256 elements sets, 16 bits integers, 255 characters strings, but we'd lose a lot of possibilities, wouldn't we? -- Frederic Da Vitoria (davitof) Membre de l'

Re: [fpc-devel] Pascal Standard, and what we can do.

2015-07-23 Thread Frederic Da Vitoria
2015-07-23 11:45 GMT+02:00 Michael Schnell : > On 07/22/2015 11:21 PM, Frederic Da Vitoria wrote: > >> >> Declare before use has at least one technical advantage: it allows to >> make much faster compliers. Declare before use allows to compile in one >> pass, while

Re: [fpc-devel] Pascal Standard, and what we can do.

2015-07-22 Thread Frederic Da Vitoria
r years and still not learn how to program correctly. Hmm, maybe this is not entirely a joke :-) -- Frederic Da Vitoria (davitof) Membre de l'April - « promouvoir et défendre le logiciel libre » - http://www.april.org ___ fpc-devel maillist -

Re: [fpc-devel] French Translation

2015-04-13 Thread Frederic Da Vitoria
ch either a diff file or the newly > > updated version so that it does not get lost and may be reviewed by > Pierre > > or someone else. If you need > > Thank you, you gave me all the necessary information. It only remains to > translate. > > Regards > Hello If Stéphane is feeling lonely, I can lend a hand :-) -- Frederic Da Vitoria (davitof) Membre de l'April - « promouvoir et défendre le logiciel libre » - http://www.april.org ___ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel

Re: [fpc-devel] ThousandSeparator

2014-11-27 Thread Frederic Da Vitoria
ICS, the code needs either to use the system settings or to be told explicitly by the developer. Even relying on the system settings may not be enough, because one may need to "import" data formatted with different national settings from the system's settings. -- Frederic Da Vito

Re: [fpc-devel] ThousandSeparator

2014-11-26 Thread Frederic Da Vitoria
2014-11-26 9:47 GMT+01:00 Michael Schnell : > On 11/26/2014 01:54 AM, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: > >> >> How does that look when hand-written on a cheque? >> >> Supposedly this is a non-breaking space, that does not allow to be > replaced by a line-break (  in HT

Re: [fpc-devel] ThousandSeparator

2014-11-26 Thread Frederic Da Vitoria
ench thousand separator is simply a space, >>> what else should it be? >>> >> >> A shift space. In utf8 that takes two bytes. >> > > How does that look when hand-written on a cheque? :-) Not much more different than an em dash from an en dash or a baseline d

Re: [fpc-devel] ThousandSeparator

2014-11-25 Thread Frederic Da Vitoria
s: 2 000 € would you? - exact typography rules state that the exact space should be actually be a little thinner than a usual space. But I guess if it is as large, few people will complain. Search "expace insécable" on wikipedia.fr for more explanations. -- Frederic Da Vitori

Re: [fpc-devel] Multithreading under DOS (was: [Lazarus] Why development remains constant for msdos?)

2013-09-26 Thread Frederic Da Vitoria
nux, which may not be easy for everybody). But the fpc application could be part of an existing set of applications, in which case changing the OS could be impossible. This is a purely theoretical observation, I haven't developed for PC/MS-DOS or been using it for years. -- Frederic Da Vitoria