Re: [fpc-pascal] parameter names local, global, glocal

2006-01-19 Thread Jonas Maebe
On 19 jan 2006, at 00:49, L505 wrote: Is it possible the Apple/Mac line feed could be causing your name to be rammed into the text below :-) No. Mac OS X uses the same line feed as every other *nix out there. No big deal, I just wondered from an academic perspective, whether the line fee

Re: [fpc-pascal] parameter names local, global, glocal

2006-01-19 Thread Jonas Maebe
On 19 jan 2006, at 00:18, Wolfram Kläger wrote: ... This error should not be reported if you switch to Delphi mode. Unfortunately no. This kind of errors ís reported by FPC, no matter which mode, while Delphi does not. I understand your explanation, but don´t really understand that an a

Re: [fpc-pascal] parameter names local, global, glocal

2006-01-19 Thread Wolfram Kläger
At 19.01.2006 01:46, L505 wrote: I dunno it is a religious thing, read the other messages too :) Of course, the whole pascal thing is religion. And maillists like this are kind of praying, at least when you have urgent questions :-) Wolfram -- Mosaikfabrik (r) Bilder von Bildern www.mosai

Re: [fpc-pascal] parameter names local, global, glocal

2006-01-19 Thread Wolfram Kläger
At 19.01.2006 10:02, Jonas wrote: The reason this is not a problem, is that you cannot access the parameters of one procedure in another anyway. But you can access a property of a parent class in the method of a child class. Thanks. This seems exactly to be the point. Now I know better, where

Re: [fpc-pascal] parameter names local, global, glocal

2006-01-19 Thread Jonas Maebe
On 19 jan 2006, at 11:00, Wolfram Kläger wrote: Thanks. This seems exactly to be the point. Now I know better, where to be careful. Let´s keep the difference to Delphi for religious purposes. I think the use of "religious" is inappropriate in this case since religion is based on faith, a

Re: [fpc-pascal] parameter names local, global, glocal

2006-01-19 Thread Wolfram Kläger
At 19.01.2006 11:08, Jonas wrote: ... Anyway, in Delphi mode we should compile everything also compilable by Delphi, so if that's not the case please submit a bug. Ok. I will check it again and do so. Maybe it helps to trust in Delphi mode and makes porting to FP easier. -- Wolfram Kläger [

Re: [fpc-pascal] parameter names local, global, glocal

2006-01-19 Thread L505
> > Is it possible the Apple/Mac line feed could be causing your name > > to be rammed into > > the text below :-) > > No. Mac OS X uses the same line feed as every other *nix out there. >From the FPC ReadLn sources I was under the impression that the Mac used #13 >for line feeds and unix used #1

Re: [fpc-pascal] parameter names local, global, glocal

2006-01-19 Thread Vincent Snijders
L505 wrote: Is it possible the Apple/Mac line feed could be causing your name to be rammed into the text below :-) No. Mac OS X uses the same line feed as every other *nix out there. From the FPC ReadLn sources I was under the impression that the Mac used #13 for line feeds and unix used

Re: [fpc-pascal] parameter names local, global, glocal

2006-01-19 Thread L505
> Maybe it helps to trust in Delphi mode > and makes porting to FP easier. I've grown to like ObjFPC mode for understanding Pascal at a greater level but using Delphi mode is a good idea with code coming from Delphi. Many of the objfpc mode choices were made with Pascal philosophy in mind, wherea

Re: [fpc-pascal] parameter names local, global, glocal

2006-01-19 Thread Jonas Maebe
On 19 jan 2006, at 11:51, L505 wrote: From the FPC ReadLn sources I was under the impression that the Mac used #13 for line feeds and unix used #10 for line feeds, but I've heard that sometimes certain unix systems used #13. Mac OS 9 and below used #13. Mac OS X, with it's unix/bsd herita

Re: [fpc-pascal] parameter names local, global, glocal

2006-01-19 Thread Wolfram Kläger
At 19.01.2006 11:57, you wrote: I've grown to like ObjFPC mode for understanding Pascal at a greater level but using Delphi mode is a good idea with code coming from Delphi. I agree completely. Delphi mode should support struggling with legacy code, but the idea of FP is (hopefuly) not to co

Re: [fpc-pascal] parameter names local, global, glocal

2006-01-19 Thread Marco van de Voort
> At 19.01.2006 11:57, you wrote: > > >I've grown to like ObjFPC mode for understanding Pascal at a greater level > >but using > >Delphi mode is a good idea with code coming from Delphi. > > I agree completely. Delphi mode should support struggling with legacy code, > but the idea of FP is (hop