R0b0t1 schrieb am Do., 26. Juli 2018, 09:53:
> On Mon, Jul 23, 2018 at 11:11 AM, Ryan Joseph
> wrote:
> >
> >
> >> On Jul 22, 2018, at 4:54 AM, Sven Barth via fpc-pascal <
> fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org> wrote:
> >>
> >> And that's why there are people who *do* care about it. Of course you
>
How is auto more "ugly" than literally any other modifier in the entire
language? They're all just english words, of varying length. Also building
features on top of a language will always result in worse performance than
having them be a part of it.
On Wed, Jul 25, 2018 at 10:05 AM, R0b0t1 wrote
> On Jul 25, 2018, at 8:05 AM, R0b0t1 wrote:
>
> This looks ugly. It also introduces modifiers to variable
> declarations. Some features should not be part of the language, they
> should be built on top of it.
Yeah, introducing modifiers to variables is not so great. You could avoid
introduc
> On Jul 26, 2018, at 11:36 PM, Michael Van Canneyt
> wrote:
>
> It is by design.
>
> And - OMG !! - it is even documented:
I never use Free directly so I had no idea. How is that even accomplished in
the language? I thought it was just a method and behaved accordingly.
If it is magic then
On Fri, Jul 27, 2018 at 11:15 AM, Ryan Joseph
wrote:
> I never use Free directly so I had no idea. How is that even accomplished
> in the language? I thought it was just a method and behaved accordingly.
>
> If it is magic then how do we call other methods on nil objects? There are
> times that w
> On Jul 27, 2018, at 10:16 AM, Dmitry Boyarintsev
> wrote:
>
> type
> TRobust = class(TObject)
> public
> v : Integer;
> procedure RobustMethod;
> end;
>
> procedure TRobust.RobustMethod;
> begin
> if Self = nil then Exit; // remove or comment out this line to start
> gettin
On Fri, 27 Jul 2018 11:06:11 -0600
Ryan Joseph wrote:
>[...]
> I’m totally confused now. Since when was it ok to call methods on nil
> objects?
You can't if you compile with -CR.
The RTL is not compiled with objectchecks, so it works there.
> According to this test not only can you call metho
> On Jul 27, 2018, at 11:24 AM, Mattias Gaertner
> wrote:
>
> You can't if you compile with -CR.
> The RTL is not compiled with objectchecks, so it works there.
>
>> According to this test not only can you call methods on nil objects but
>> it calls the method statically (like a class method)
On Fri, Jul 27, 2018 at 1:06 PM, Ryan Joseph
wrote:
> I had no idea you could do that!
>
Obviously, it speaks high of your abilities ;)
You've been able to accomplish your tasks without use of hacks (of any
kind), playing strict by the rules.
I’m totally confused now. Since when was it ok to c
On Fri, 27 Jul 2018, Dmitry Boyarintsev wrote:
From high-level (OOP) such actions are not welcomed (and are enforced using
-CR in case of FPC).
In order to have robust, maintainable and portable (to either other
platform or even language) a developer should respect high-level rules and
never
On Fri, Jul 27, 2018 at 3:22 PM, Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
> In order to have robust, maintainable and portable (to either other
>> platform or even language) a developer should respect high-level rules and
>> never depend on low-level rules to be the same on any platform.
>>
>
> Do I have permi
On Fri, 27 Jul 2018 11:41:51 -0600
Ryan Joseph wrote:
>[...]
> How do I disable this? I just ran this test program with -CR and I still
> calls the method statically.
You are right. I just tested myself.
Either I'm confusing the flag or it has been changed.
Once upon a time Lazarus used the sam
> On Jul 27, 2018, at 2:17 PM, Mattias Gaertner
> wrote:
>
> You are right. I just tested myself.
> Either I'm confusing the flag or it has been changed.
> Once upon a time Lazarus used the same trick and I had to change the
> code as some users wanted use the flag.
Do you need me to file a b
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