Re: [fpc-pascal] Adding Javascript to Pascal

Why not? Because it helps a distinctly inferior language design to perpetuate. It used to be said that any programmer that first learned to program using BASIC was ruined for life. I would say the same thing about Javascript.  Doug C. On Fri, 21 Feb 2025 17:46:49 -0500 wrote ---

Re: [fpc-pascal] Adding Javascript to Pascal

I am also allergic to javascript! Consider Lua instead. Doug C. On Fri, 21 Feb 2025 07:35:39 -0500 Alexey T. via fpc-pascal wrote --- Scripting is good thing. But I hate JS. No mandatory quotes around dict keys. Arrow functions which are sugar and not needed. etc etc. I sugg

Re: [fpc-pascal] Pascal sensitive diff tool?

Beyond Compare is the single most valuable utility I have bought in 30 years of PC use. Highly recommended! On Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:33:41 -0500 Wayne Sherman via fpc-pascal wrote --- Peter B wrote: > I'm wondering if there is any diff tool out there, > that caters for Pascal synta

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

I'm tempted to ask if you are seriously asking this. But I won't. Design is a whole professional specialty. To say it boils down to light vs. dark background or the amount of whitespace is to insult those who do this work as a career. I'm sure you aren't trying to do that, so I'm not sure what

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

On Tue, 15 Oct 2024 21:34:01 -0400 Rainer Stratmann via fpc-pascal wrote --- Please notice that Telegram does not spend any money in marketing! Telegram is one of the most popular messenger: https://www.oberlo.com/statistics/most-popular-messagi

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

On Tue, 15 Oct 2024 19:07:58 -0400 Rainer Stratmann via fpc-pascal wrote --- At the Lazarus Congress in Cologne in October 2024, it ended up being very interesting. An important question came up. Why are no new users coming to Lazarus/Freepascal?

Re: [fpc-pascal] What's in Hello World

Ah, yes! The Hello World Machine. Doug C. On Thu, 11 Jan 2024 14:34:29 -0500 Adriaan van Os via fpc-pascal wrote --- Nikolay Nikolov via fpc-pascal wrote: > But that increases the binary size to 28 bytes. We can put a 'ret' That's still 27 bytes too much. Let's design a CPU

Re: [fpc-pascal] Procedures that work like WRITELN()

It would be very useful if WriteStr() was a function that returned the resulting string instead of returning it via an output parameter. Then you could just wrap the Writeln parameters in WriteStr() and pass it to the new logging procedure. Unfortunately, the ISO extension did not end up doing t

Re: [fpc-pascal] Pause Key

I think any function where you provide the key code value and obtain the status of the key should work. >From the Linux Documenation Project: The two keys PrintScrn/SysRq and Pause/Break are special in that they have two keycodes: the former has keycode 84 when Alt is pressed simultaneously,

Re: [fpc-pascal] Working on a new way to educate people about pascal

Well, this discussion has not gone well at all! I suggest that everyone relax and discontinue pursuing it. The response has been made that the example code in the tutorial is more complicated than it should be. Digressions on SQL and databases are not relevant. Nor are comments on grammar.

Re: [fpc-pascal] Program efficiency

Maintaining understandable and readable code is often more important that runtime efficiency. Like others have said, there are likely many additional places you can address overall efficiency before dealing with these calculations. Doug C. On Wed, 09 Nov 2022 09:52:12 -0500 James

Re: [fpc-pascal] Bug or feature ?

WRITELN(F: 'Hello'); is not proper Pascal.___ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org https://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal

Re: [fpc-pascal] StrToInt is using ShortString buffer?

So, are you saying the one cannot declare an IntToStr function with the string represented by a PChar argument? Seems pretty straightforward to me. Isn't that what is being requested? Doug C. On Wed, 12 Jan 2022 11:10:57 -0500 Sven Barth via fpc-pascal wrote ---- Doug

Re: [fpc-pascal] StrToInt is using ShortString buffer?

Alexey- You can always create such a function yourself,  gain experience using it, and share the source with us. That way others can gain experience with it and maybe someday also ask for it to be added to the standard library. Doug C. On Tue, 11 Jan 2022 10:46:24 -0500 Alexey T

Re: [fpc-pascal] freepascal.org SSL_ERROR_BAD_CERT_DOMAIN

You can add Firefox on Windows 10 which also sees this error. Seems not to be a browser issue. If the user requests an https: connection, the website should NOT revert to a http: connection. Instead it should return an error if the https: connection cannot be made. On Tue, 04 Jan

Re: [fpc-pascal] Writing Pascal Physics and Vectors

I would be helpful if you could meld this work into other Pascal-based efforts, such as the Castle Game Engine. I don't know the details of CGE but if it could use more of this type of functionality, why not make your work even more useful by connecting up with CGE? Doug C. On Fri,

Re: [fpc-pascal] Is the Lazarus list down? (2021-10-04)

I received the original posting and also the second direct attempt. Doug C. On Mon, 04 Oct 2021 04:36:32 -0400 Bo Berglund via fpc-pascal wrote On Mon, 04 Oct 2021 10:28:38 +0200, Bo Berglund via fpc-pascal wrote: >I have tried to pos

Re: [fpc-pascal] New Warnings with fpc >= 3.2.0 (fredvs)

Note that if you depend on this technique you should add a comment where the type is defined that the order of the items is significant so that someone in the future does not change the order out of ignorance!___ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists

Re: [fpc-pascal] Last fix for RegExpr (error on empty input)

Yes to this idea! On Sat, 15 Feb 2020 10:31:45 -0500 Michael Van Canneyt wrote Since there are already 9 boolean properties, it may be better to introduce a Options set property and mark the others deprecated.___ fpc-pascal maillist -

Re: [fpc-pascal] Read lines into UnicodeString variable from UCS2 (UTF-16) encoded text file

Tomas Hajny <mailto:xhaj...@hajny.biz> wrote On 2019-09-16 00:29, DougC wrote: > But to fully correct the situation, I would also change it to a > procedure since leaving it as a function still suggests it only > returns a result and has no other side effects. No, changi

Re: [fpc-pascal] Read lines into UnicodeString variable from UCS2 (UTF-16) encoded text file

Tomas- Thanks for pursuing this! Generally a good approach. I do not like item 3 in that the function, as described, is named DetectUtfBom but does more than detect. Side effects of functions are generally not good. I would at least rename it something like DetectAndHandleUtfBom. But to

Re: [fpc-pascal] Illegal counter variable?

Actually, the original code used two VARs, not typed CONST. One VAR was initialized and one was not. I think this is a bug and should be fixed. As Jonas already pointed out: "var i : longint = 0;" is internally handled using the same code path as "const i : longint = 0", and typed constants c

Re: [fpc-pascal] Illegal counter variable?

The last messages have wandered off topic somewhat. Can we stick to the original request, which was why the handling of the two declarations differed? Doug C.___ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org https://lists.freepascal.org/c

Re: [fpc-pascal] Very vague gettickcount64 description?

If intentionally vague then that fact should be included in the description along with the reason! On Fri, 06 Sep 2019 10:06:24 -0400 Tomas Hajny wrote On 2019-09-03 15:27, Paulo Costa wrote: > While consulting the online reference about gettickcount > https://www.freepascal.org/d

Re: [fpc-pascal] Feature announcement: Generic functions, procedures and methods

But first fix the code so the test is correct. (The Min function is exactly the same as the Max function. Min should have A < B, not A > B.) On Tue, 24 Nov 2015 08:31:08 -0500 Sven Barth wrote Am 24.11.2015 14:26 schrieb "Anthony Walter"