> No, because in this case, you are comparing 2 basically different > programming > techniques: OOP and linear; they are fundamentally different in their > practical use.
The iso feature supports a third, namely recursive programming, which has been forgotten after C took over the world and introduced its assembly style programming. > I don't see much code out there which mixes the two. > (I'm talking 50-50%, not 99-1%) > > Beware: > > I want to make clear that I am not against the concept "an sich". > If the compiler was born 'out of the blue', and it supported 'iso' > procedures from the very start, the problem would not exist. All > procedures > (local and global) could be made 'iso-aware', and you would be able to > pass > both local and global functions for the same procedural parameter. > > The problem is that we are in the situation where the majority of > existing code There is a lot of existing code out there which currently are not supported by any live compiler, namely everything written in some of the mac pascals. FPC can be the remedy. > does not work like that, and that we have to introduce a > 'schisma' in the compiler. I'm not particularly fond of this idea. As I see the suggested solution, the iso stuff can be added, without affecting existing code. Olle _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
