Re: [fpc-pascal] Specifying a Interface type via $Interfaces

2007-10-11 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 11/10/2007, Dean Zobec <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > interface types. Could somebody please explain the difference. And > > why would I use one over the other? > Corba interfaces are not reference counted as they don't descend from IUnknown So other than that, COM interfaces and CORBA interf

Re: [fpc-pascal] Specifying a Interface type via $Interfaces

2007-10-11 Thread Dean Zobec
2007/10/11, Graeme Geldenhuys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi, > > I want to start learning the use of Interfaces. It's a language > feature I have by-passing for some time now. From what I have read > this seems to be a handy language feature to learn. > > In the FPC documentation in mentions I can have

Re: [fpc-pascal] Specifying a Interface type via $Interfaces

2007-10-11 Thread Dean Zobec
2007/10/11, Cesar Romero <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Graeme, > > Hi, > > > > > Hi > > I want to start learning the use of Interfaces. It's a language > > feature I have by-passing for some time now. From what I have read > > this seems to be a handy language feature to learn. > > > > In the FPC document

Re: [fpc-pascal] Specifying a Interface type via $Interfaces

2007-10-11 Thread Cesar Romero
Graeme, Hi, Hi I want to start learning the use of Interfaces. It's a language feature I have by-passing for some time now. From what I have read this seems to be a handy language feature to learn. In the FPC documentation in mentions I can have COM or CORBA (Java) interface types. Could

[fpc-pascal] Fwd: wingraph extended library for pascal

2007-10-11 Thread Jonas Maebe
From: edexter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal.misc Subject: wingraph extended library for pascal Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2007 04:58:41 -0700 NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2007 11:58:41 + (UTC) I have written a unit to make wingraph (for borland and free pascal) more crt lik

[fpc-pascal] Specifying a Interface type via $Interfaces

2007-10-11 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Hi, I want to start learning the use of Interfaces. It's a language feature I have by-passing for some time now. From what I have read this seems to be a handy language feature to learn. In the FPC documentation in mentions I can have COM or CORBA (Java) interface types. Could somebody please ex

Re: [fpc-pascal] D language and Object Pascal

2007-10-11 Thread Matt Emson
Marco Ciampa wrote: Yes, it's so sad to see people that waste time reinventing the wheel... To be fair to Walter, you have to look at his history. He wrote a lot of different compiler implementations over the years - this is pretty much what he's been doing *since* the time of Turbo Pascal.

Re: [fpc-pascal] D language and Object Pascal

2007-10-11 Thread Marco Ciampa
On Wed, Oct 10, 2007 at 02:53:45PM +0200, Jilani Khaldi wrote: > Hi All, > just curious about the D language > (http://www.digitalmars.com/d/index.html), I read some articles on the > site, downloaded the compiler... and wrote some little examples. Well, many > of the things that the author pres