Bart via fpc-pascal said on Sat, 16 Nov 2024 14:59:10 +0100
>On Sat, Nov 16, 2024 at 8:55 AM Steve Litt via fpc-pascal
> wrote:
>
>
>> See this is what I don't understand. In the 7 years I used Turbo
>> Pascal professionally, I don't remember ever having to
Hairy Pixels via fpc-pascal said on Sat, 16 Nov 2024 06:28:38 -0500
> On Nov 16, 2024 at 3:13:26 PM, Nikolay Nikolov via fpc-pascal <
>fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org> wrote:
>
>> If you know nothing about the language, the main page explains to you
>> quickly what's the point of the language, and
Nikolay Nikolov via fpc-pascal said on Sat, 16 Nov 2024 10:13:26 +0200
>On 11/16/24 9:46 AM, Steve Litt via fpc-pascal wrote:
>> DougC via fpc-pascal said on Fri, 15 Nov 2024 19:15:13 -0500
>>
>>> I'm tempted to ask if you are seriously asking this. But I won&#
DougC via fpc-pascal said on Fri, 15 Nov 2024 19:15:13 -0500
>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
Rainer Stratmann via fpc-pascal said on Sat, 19 Oct 2024 16:15:10 +0200
>I really can not see where beginners have to struggle with memory
>management. If a project gets bigger you have to think about it, yes.
>It depends on the coding style. In my project I wrote my own memory
>management for the
Michael Van Canneyt via fpc-pascal said on Thu, 17 Oct 2024 09:10:54
+0200 (CEST)
>My wife creates websites for a living.
>I nearly had to re-animate her after she looked at the FPC website.
>The FPC website is a no-go area for her since that time.
Exactly what should a FreePascal website have i
Sven Barth via fpc-pascal said on Thu, 17 Oct 2024 14:17:23 +0200
>Probably something like the std::*_ptr (shared, unique, auto, etc.)
>from C++ could be implemented in FPC. Main point missing for a
>convenient solution would be a mechanism so that e.g. classes could be
>accessed as is from such t
Nikolay Nikolov via fpc-pascal said on Thu, 17 Oct 2024 11:20:15 +0300
>> I also agree. Unfortunately, as I said, compiler developers don't
>> make good web designers.
>>
>> Examples for bad sites (I'm repeating myself, I know):
>>
>> https://gcc.gnu.org/
>>
>> https://llvm.org/
>>
>> But this ti
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 how well behaved Linux applications are
>>> supposed
Rainer Stratmann via fpc-pascal said on Wed, 16 Oct 2024 01:07:58 +0200
>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?
>Why do we find it so difficult?
>How can we get ne
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 think that is?
This is what I meant in my previous post.
Gerhard Scholz via fpc-pascal said on Sat, 16 Dec 2023 20:07:45 +0100
>I never had the problem because before the else I always inserted a ";"
I know it's 50+ years too late for me to submit ideas for the Pascal
language, but in my perfect world you could put a semicolon at the end
of anything,
Michael Van Canneyt via fpc-pascal said on Wed, 11 Oct 2023 08:27:35
+0200 (CEST)
>On Tue, 10 Oct 2023, Steve Litt via fpc-pascal wrote:
>
>> What is webasssembly?
>
>A bytecode format (similar to what is used in Java and C# runtimes)
>which is an open standard and wh
What is webasssembly?
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Santi via fpc-pascal said on Sat, 1 Jul 2023 10:22:48 +0200
>El 16/06/2023 a las 16:09, Mattias Gaertner via fpc-pascal escribió:
>> On Fri, 16 Jun 2023 20:51:42 +0700
>> Hairy Pixels via fpc-pascal wrote:
>>
On Jun 16, 2023, at 6:23 PM, Thomas Kurz via fpc-pascal
wrote:
>> 20 years
Steve Litt via fpc-pascal said on Mon, 26 Jun 2023 22:26:17 -0400
>Where does one get ComObj? On my box this errored out with:
I went off half cocked. I'm using Linux. Is ComObj even available on
Linux? Would you expect Voice := CreateOLEObject('SAPI.SpVoice') and
Voice.Sp
Rik van Kekem via fpc-pascal said on Mon, 26 Jun 2023 16:12:06 +0200
>program Project1;
>{$mode objfpc}{$H+}
>uses
> Classes, ComObj;
>var
> Voice: olevariant;
>begin
> Voice := CreateOLEObject('SAPI.SpVoice');
> Voice.Speak('I am speaking.', 0);
> Voice.Speak('I am also speaking.', 0)
Hairy Pixels via fpc-pascal said on Mon, 26 Jun 2023 18:52:16 +0700
>> On Jun 26, 2023, at 3:48 PM, Steve Litt via fpc-pascal
>> wrote:
>>
>> Why do you need pointers at all? Pointers aren't *usually* an asset.
>>
>
>Seriously? anytime you allocate
Hairy Pixels via fpc-pascal said on Sun, 25 Jun 2023 11:20:53 +0700
>> On Jun 24, 2023, at 8:00 PM, Steve Litt via fpc-pascal
>> wrote:
>>
>> I don't do much with Pascal pointers, but it looks to me like you:
>>
>> * Set p to the address of i
>&g
Hairy Pixels via fpc-pascal said on Thu, 22 Jun 2023 20:23:13 +0700
>I've forgotten entirely, what does subscripting a pointer do in
>Pascal? p[0] returns 100 but after that garbage. Seems like a c-style
>array which doesn't feel right in the language.
>
>var
> i: Integer;
> p: PInteger;
>begin
wkitty42--- via fpc-pascal said on Wed, 21 Jun 2023 08:07:59 -0400
>On 6/20/23 10:54 PM, Steve Litt via fpc-pascal wrote:
>> It was a long time ago, but if I remember correctly the
>> Whitesmith Pascal and Turbo Pascal 2 and 3 had either break or
>> continue. If I rememb
Hairy Pixels via fpc-pascal said on Tue, 20 Jun 2023 14:05:04 +0700
>> On Jun 20, 2023, at 1:10 PM, Steve Litt via fpc-pascal
>> wrote:
>>
>> I can still make a good argument for what my professors taught me,
>> but in the intervening years, I found break and es
Hairy Pixels via fpc-pascal said on Sun, 18 Jun 2023 08:04:23 +0700
>> On Jun 18, 2023, at 1:07 AM, tsie...@softcon.com wrote:
>>
>> This is interesting, because it's the first time I've ever seen
>> "break" as a valid command in pascal, and I've been using pascal
>> since the mid/late 80s. All
Hairy Pixels via fpc-pascal said on Fri, 16 Jun 2023 09:57:36 +0700
>> On Jun 16, 2023, at 6:07 AM, Steve Litt via fpc-pascal
>> wrote:
>>
>> Is http://sprunge.us/MOJIg4 a legitimate use of a for loop with
>> break? I know there are better ways to do it, but I&#x
Is http://sprunge.us/MOJIg4 a legitimate use of a for loop with break? I
know there are better ways to do it, but I'm just wondering whether
it's legitimate.
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Nikolay Nikolov via fpc-pascal said on Mon, 12 Jun 2023 09:15:17 +0300
>On 6/12/23 04:44, Steve Litt via fpc-pascal wrote:
[snip]
>> So, subject to your guidance, I'm assuming FPC isn't optimized for
>> tail recursion. Is my assumption an accurate one?
>
Marco van de Voort via fpc-pascal said on Mon, 12 Jun 2023 09:12:22
+0200
>On 12-6-2023 08:15, Nikolay Nikolov via fpc-pascal wrote:
>
>Shouldn't the recursive call assign the result?
>
>> nextt(num - 1);
>
>
>nextt:=nextt(num - 1);
>
>
>if you don't use the result, the whole call may be optimi
Jean SUZINEAU via fpc-pascal said on Mon, 12 Jun 2023 18:04:07 +0200
>According to you other posts, I won't be surprised that you think in a
>C/C++ way.
:-) Busted! I used Pascal 1984-1993, and C 1986-present with C++ (hate
it) 1990-1998. So I long ago forgot the details of pascal, and program
p
Hi all,
Tail recursion is recursion in which absolutely nothing gets executed
after the return statement. Some programming languages, including
Guile, optimize for tail recursion such that tail recursive algorithms
don't use additional stack space as you pile up more and more levels of
recursion.
Hairy Pixels via fpc-pascal said on Wed, 7 Jun 2023 15:44:43 +0700
>I'm curious, why doesn't the following code give a warning? Shouldn't
>the compiler know you're assigning to "r" which hasn't been
>initialized yet?
>
>type
> TMyClass = class
> x: integer;
> end;
>
>proc
Hi all,
Sorry for the late notice. GoLUG's mailing list is down so I couldn't
get input on a topic earlier.
Tonight at 7:00 Eastern Daylight time, 6/7/2023, GoLUG is having an
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Jean SUZINEAU via fpc-pascal said on Mon, 5 Jun 2023 11:56:59 +0200
>Hello, I have a hard time trying to understand what you want to test.
>
>In your functions, you are using a record, not a class or a pointer to
>record or an object.
>
>The personrecord just behave in your parameters and return
Travis Siegel via fpc-pascal said on Sun, 4 Jun 2023 19:38:44 +
>
>On 6/4/2023 1:37 PM, Steve Litt via fpc-pascal wrote:
>> Henry Vermaak via fpc-pascal said on Fri, 2 Jun 2023 09:38:17 +0100
>>
>>> On Fri, 2 Jun 2023 at 01:36, Steve Litt via fpc-pascal
>>&
Ralf Quint via fpc-pascal said on Thu, 1 Jun 2023 17:43:58 -0700
>On 6/1/2023 5:36 PM, Steve Litt via fpc-pascal wrote:
>>
>> What is the best way for me to construct newperson() so that every
>> time called it would return a new variable?
>W.T.F.?
>
>S
Henry Vermaak via fpc-pascal said on Fri, 2 Jun 2023 09:38:17 +0100
>On Fri, 2 Jun 2023 at 01:36, Steve Litt via fpc-pascal
> wrote:
>> fillchar(junkvar, junkvar_size, 'b');
>> person := modperson(person, 'Martin');
>> person
Hi all,
I'm trying to create a function (called newperson()) that creates a new
instance of a record. The following compiles with no errors or warnings
in FPC, but multiple calls to newperson() produce exactly the same
variable, so in the preceding changing person changes person2, and vice
versa:
Michael Van Canneyt via fpc-pascal said on Tue, 30 May 2023 16:55:16
+0200 (CEST)
>On Tue, 30 May 2023, Hairy Pixels via fpc-pascal wrote:
>
>>
>>
>>> On May 25, 2023, at 1:10 PM, Michael Van Canneyt via fpc-pascal
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> In C you need to do something like this:
>>>
>>> Function
Benito van der Zander via fpc-pascal said on Wed, 24 May 2023 13:00:04
+0200
>I regret installing Linux. Everything worked better with Windows 98
>and Delphi 4
Why not just take your Win98 install disk, install win98, then take
your Delphi 4 install disk, install Delphi 4, and you're all set. And
Michael Van Canneyt via fpc-pascal said on Sun, 21 May 2023 09:47:15
+0200 (CEST)
>Assuming the result of A is not used outside of Test, the following is
>the only solution:
>
>procedure Test;
>
>var
> A : TObject;
>begin
> A:=TObject.Create;
> Try
> // call some code in other unit which
Michael Van Canneyt via fpc-pascal said on Sun, 21 May 2023 09:47:15
+0200 (CEST)
>On Sun, 21 May 2023, Hairy Pixels via fpc-pascal wrote:
>
>> I've never really used exceptions myself in Pascal (with the
>> exception of breaking out of deeply recursive function calls) so I
>> don't know all the r
Giuliano Colla via fpc-pascal said on Wed, 3 May 2023 19:33:25 +0200
>
>Override: When you're dealing with objects, you have the
>inheritance, that is you may derive a new class (the template of an
>object) from an existing class and the newly created class inherits
>all the metho
José Mejuto via fpc-pascal said on Wed, 3 May 2023 11:35:50 +0200
>Hello,
>
>Attached is a dirty implementation of "touch" for junctions
==
TTouchJunction = class(TCustomApplication)
protected
procedure DoRun; override;
function Dat
Hi all,
On DOS and Windows programs using Turbo Pascal, I did the following to
make a sound of frequency FREQUENCY play through the speakers:
sound(FREQUENCY);
The following command stopped the tone:
nosound;
These two commands don't work on Linux, according to my
experience and FPC documentat
Hi all,
As I predicted, here's what happened to me on #fpc:
==
Joanna sets ban on $a:stevelitt
* You have been kicked from #fpc by Joanna (sorry i cant share a
channel with you after what you said in mailing list)
=
For those of you who can't get onto Libera.Chat channel #fpc, or would
prefer a less stressful enforcement of the rules, I just created
community channel #fpc-alt for ontopic and informal channel ##fpc-alt
for offtopic.
I haven't yet created the topic for these channels, but basically no
personal
Karoly Balogh via fpc-pascal said on Thu, 13 Apr 2023 16:00:46 +0200
(CEST)
>Can we keep this discussion civil? Personal attacks and ridiculing
>someone is not the way to deal with disagreements.
>
>Charlie
Sorry. From now on I'll conform with the preceding.
SteveT
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I bet this Joanna character is an active member of her Homeowners
Association.
I verified that there is an operator named Joanna on #fpc on
Libera.Chat.
The power-hungry kind of behavior exhibited by Joanna is bad for the
channel and therefore bad for the project. In another post Jacob
mentioned
Wols Lists via fpc-pascal said on Sat, 31 Dec 2022 15:07:41 +
>On 31/12/2022 08:37, Steve Litt via fpc-pascal wrote:
>> Anthony Walter via fpc-pascal said on Thu, 29 Dec 2022 07:31:57 -0500
>>
>>> @youngman
>>>
>>> "I'm a database guy wi
Anthony Walter via fpc-pascal said on Thu, 29 Dec 2022 07:31:57 -0500
>@youngman
>
>"I'm a database guy with maybe 30 years experience, I'm new to SQL and
>oh my god is it an over-complicated monster ..."
I'll say this: It certainly doesn't help that there are different
variations of SQL.
SteveT
Brian via fpc-pascal said on Mon, 30 May 2022 22:36:00 -0400
>On 5/30/22 14:59, Steve Litt via fpc-pascal wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> In 1984 I started my programming career with Whitesmith Pascal,
>
>Sorry for the off-topic post, folks, but this just opened a w
Hairy Pixels via fpc-pascal said on Tue, 31 May 2022 08:39:20 +0700
>> On May 31, 2022, at 1:59 AM, Steve Litt via fpc-pascal
>> wrote:
>>
>> The example code I've seen in the "Feature Announcement: Function
>> References and Anonymous Functions"
Sven Barth via fpc-pascal said on Mon, 30 May 2022 23:25:52 +0200
>Steve Litt via fpc-pascal schrieb am
>Mo., 30. Mai 2022, 21:25:
>
>> With the addition of callback functions, and the closures and events
>> they bring to the table, you can go procedural, OOP, or to a de
Rainer Stratmann via fpc-pascal said on Mon, 30 May 2022 21:22:48 +0200
>Am Montag, 30. Mai 2022, 20:59:56 CEST schrieb Steve Litt via
>fpc-pascal:
>> I think adding yet more features obfuscates and Perlizes
>> Pascal.
>
>What does Perlize mean?
Perlize means to out
Hi all,
In 1984 I started my programming career with Whitesmith Pascal, and
soon after Turbo Pascal 3, then C. C had the advantage of pointers to
functions, Pascal had the advantages of better readability and less
likelihood of errant pointers and buffer overruns. I did a little work
with Object O
Hairy Pixels via fpc-pascal said on Fri, 13 May 2022 22:43:15 +0700
>Is there an “alloca" like function in the RTL which allocates memory
>from the stack? For example
>https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man3/alloca.3.html
Why not just allocate from the heap? Everything I've seen tells me that
if yo
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