On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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.
I agree, but comparing the market share of Apple and Windows I think that this codebase is dwarfed by the Delphi code base :)
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.
Please explain the "without affecting existing code" ?
Once more, I don't object to the introduction of this new 'iso' style; I question it's usefullnes.
I will object against a solution that causes existing code to be altered in any way, such as an extra hidden parameter for all callbacks. For the ISO ones, I don't think there is any other way of doing it. As long as it is restricted to those, there is no problem...
Michael.
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