Re: [fpc-pascal] What to do to get new users

2024-11-17 Thread Wayne Sherman via fpc-pascal
On Sun, Nov 17, 2024 at 2:20 PM Michael Van Canneyt via fpc-pascal wrote: > to pass it to the compiler through @extrafpc.cfg. > > If it is a fpc config file, then in that case it is definitely documented > here: > https://www.freepascal.org/docs-html/current/user/userse17.html "One of the comman

Re: [fpc-pascal] What to do to get new users

2024-11-17 Thread Vern via fpc-pascal
Travis, There is a discussion in the fpc archives 2014 I believe about using Geany. I have been using Geany for over 10 years with complex GUI programs ... but you must use a file located in the directory where the executable is linked. ... in this case extrafps.cfg ... and reference the fi

Re: [fpc-pascal] What to do to get new users

2024-11-17 Thread Travis Siegel via fpc-pascal
On 11/17/2024 12:57 PM, Sven Barth via fpc-pascal wrote: Am 16.11.2024 um 16:42 schrieb Marcos Douglas B. Santos via fpc-pascal: FPC and Lazarus are as unified as is sensible. We keep them different by *choice* so that users don't think that they *have* to choose Lazarus if they don't want to.

Re: [fpc-pascal] Fwd: What to do to get new users

2024-11-17 Thread Sven Barth via fpc-pascal
Am 15.11.2024 um 15:26 schrieb Steve Litt via fpc-pascal: Nikolay Nikolov via fpc-pascal said on Wed, 16 Oct 2024 12:44:35 +0300 Do you have a garbage collection proposal for Pascal? Free Pascal has a JVM target that supports garbage collection and pretty much nobody is using it. Why do you t

Re: [fpc-pascal] What to do to get new users

2024-11-17 Thread Marcos Douglas B. Santos via fpc-pascal
On Sun, Nov 17, 2024 at 9:57 AM Sven Barth via fpc-pascal wrote: > > Am 16.11.2024 um 16:42 schrieb Marcos Douglas B. Santos via fpc-pascal: > > "anonymous procedures" now > > exist and can also be declared "anywhere"; > > You didn't get the important part of the feature then. The important > part

Re: [fpc-pascal] What to do to get new users

2024-11-17 Thread Hairy Pixels via fpc-pascal
On Nov 17, 2024 at 7:57:07 PM, Sven Barth via fpc-pascal < fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org> wrote: > - how about allowing the same AS in unit declarations so we can do > something like [unit MyUnitWithABigName AS MyUnit] and then use > [MyUnit.TSomeClass] — this can already be done with MACROS, s

[fpc-pascal] [ADMIN] Re: What to do to get new users

2024-11-17 Thread Jonas Maebe via fpc-pascal
Hi, Can we please move this discussion to the fpc-other list? It has grown very large and lies not really within in the primary purpose of this list (getting help with using FPC). Thanks, Jonas One of the FPC mailing lists admins ___ fpc-pascal ma

Re: [fpc-pascal] What to do to get new users

2024-11-17 Thread Sven Barth via fpc-pascal
Am 15.11.2024 um 15:23 schrieb Steve Litt via fpc-pascal: Second, fpc is neither fish nor fowl: It has way too much "stuff" to be an easy to learn or use language, but that "stuff" isn't useful to most non-Lazarus users. The solution to this problem is to publicize the hell out of the -M tp mode,

Re: [fpc-pascal] What to do to get new users

2024-11-17 Thread Sven Barth via fpc-pascal
Am 15.11.2024 um 23:35 schrieb Steve Litt via fpc-pascal: Sven Barth via fpc-pascal said on Thu, 17 Oct 2024 07:46:22 +0200 Am 17.10.2024 um 01:51 schrieb Rainer Stratmann via fpc-pascal: Am Donnerstag, 17. Oktober 2024, 00:08:27 CEST schrieb Sven Barth via fpc- pascal: News flash: this is ho

Re: [fpc-pascal] What to do to get new users

2024-11-17 Thread Sven Barth via fpc-pascal
Am 16.11.2024 um 16:42 schrieb Marcos Douglas B. Santos via fpc-pascal: "anonymous procedures" now exist and can also be declared "anywhere"; You didn't get the important part of the feature then. The important part is less the anonymous function, but the function reference. That you can have