> So, I wonder is there a way to "transliterate" the C NAMELIST emulator > (many > thanks for the search Cosmin) into pure Delphi? I appreciate the > underlying > difficulties and the possible requirement for pushing the envelope of > Delphi > language constraints, however a scientific computing oriented Delphi would > really do well to have a built-in or at least mostly-native NAMELIST > facility.
It can be "transliterated" but it can't be done automatically, if that's what you're thinking of. If you're willing to do it yourself, be aware it's using lots of pointers (uses linked lists) and it will, most likely, not result in the best possible Delphi code. Since this code can not replace the missing compiler support in Delphi you'll end up using pseudo-RTTI the way I suggested anyway, only you'll not have the benefit of Delphi's classes for coding. > However, the Fortran implementation of NAMELISTs ought to be repeatable in > other languages that are sufficiently-complete. Can we find a way? It > would > really be worth it. You imply a language is complete if it has support for NAMELISTs. I remember a joke I found on Wikipedia's page on Fortran: "What will the language of the year 2000 look like? ... Nobody knows but it will be called FORTRAN." _______________________________________________ Delphi mailing list -> [email protected] http://www.elists.org/mailman/listinfo/delphi
