Re: [fpc-pascal]OT: An FPC program in LinuxFormat Magazine

2003-03-24 Thread Anton Tichawa
hello, list! On Monday 24 March 2003 23:16, you wrote: > On Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 04:17:28PM +0100, Florian Klaempfl wrote: > > A.J. Venter wrote: > > >Just in case anybody needs some ammo against people who think pascal is > > >dead. > > >This months Linux format includes AJ's Internet Cafe For LT

Re: [fpc-pascal]OT: An FPC program in LinuxFormat Magazine

2003-03-24 Thread Anton Tichawa
On Monday 24 March 2003 23:16, you wrote: > On Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 04:17:28PM +0100, Florian Klaempfl wrote: > > A.J. Venter wrote: > > >Just in case anybody needs some ammo against people who think pascal is > > >dead. > > >This months Linux format includes AJ's Internet Cafe For LTSP (now > > >D

Re: [fpc-pascal]OT: An FPC program in LinuxFormat Magazine

2003-03-24 Thread Anton Tichawa
On Monday 24 March 2003 23:16, you wrote: > On Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 04:17:28PM +0100, Florian Klaempfl wrote: > > A.J. Venter wrote: > > >Just in case anybody needs some ammo against people who think pascal is > > >dead. > > >This months Linux format includes AJ's Internet Cafe For LTSP (now > > >D

Re: [fpc-pascal]OT: An FPC program in LinuxFormat Magazine

2003-03-24 Thread James Mills
On Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 04:17:28PM +0100, Florian Klaempfl wrote: > A.J. Venter wrote: > >Just in case anybody needs some ammo against people who think pascal is > >dead. > >This months Linux format includes AJ's Internet Cafe For LTSP (now > >DireqCafe) which was written in FPC. > >Just goes to sh

Re: [fpc-pascal]Class Identification?

2003-03-24 Thread memsom
Michael, > This is not entirely correct. Neither is your explanation ;-) > The latter will return false for a descendent of TButton, while the > former will give true. The exact statement corresponding to the > 'is' operator is "The is and as operators use InheritsFrom in their implementations.

Re: [fpc-pascal]OT: An FPC program in LinuxFormat Magazine

2003-03-24 Thread Florian Klaempfl
A.J. Venter wrote: Just in case anybody needs some ammo against people who think pascal is dead. This months Linux format includes AJ's Internet Cafe For LTSP (now DireqCafe) which was written in FPC. Just goes to show, aint no proble it can't solve. And before anybody acuses me of just downright s

[fpc-pascal]OT: An FPC program in LinuxFormat Magazine

2003-03-24 Thread A.J. Venter
Just in case anybody needs some ammo against people who think pascal is dead. This months Linux format includes AJ's Internet Cafe For LTSP (now DireqCafe) which was written in FPC. Just goes to show, aint no proble it can't solve. And before anybody acuses me of just downright spamming, yes I am

Re: [fpc-pascal]Class Identification?

2003-03-24 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Mon, 24 Mar 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Write a procedure or function that takes a 'self' pointer to the data. This is > basically what methods are at the end of the day. > > If you want better allocation performance, you can always refactor the memory > allocation routines too. If FPC fo

Re: [fpc-pascal]Class Identification?

2003-03-24 Thread memsom
To expand on Sebastians answer... > 2. Will TObject remain the "default ancestor" in the future? Yes, beacuse the Object Pascal that FPC supports is based on Borland Delphi's Object Pascal language (which is in part related to the Object Pascal standard created by the ISO or ANSI, I forget whuc

Re: [fpc-pascal]Class Identification?

2003-03-24 Thread Sebastian Günther
On Mon, 2003-03-24 at 18:17, Anton Tichawa wrote: > Nor did I - Thank you. I'd like to ask several questions: > > 1. What is then the difference between a class without ancestor, and a class > inheriting from TObject? There is no difference > 2. Will TObject remain the "default ancestor" in t

Re: [fpc-pascal]Class Identification?

2003-03-24 Thread Anton Tichawa
On Monday 24 March 2003 00:31, you wrote: > > btw, all classes are implicit descendants of TObject. If you don't > > specify any base class, the class will be derived from TObject directly: > > > > type > > TMyClass = class > > procedure Something; > > ... > > end; > > > > TMyClass is a