> FPC has great amounts of compatibility with Borland Delphi. Unfortunately, > according to the FPC docs, it only supports Delphi compatibility until Delphi > 4. > The object pascal enhancement on the next Delphi release is still not > supported > by FPC. > > Since now Delphi has grown to Delphi 9 (2005) -the latest Delphi release- > which has tons of great object pascal enhancement,
Name one that really enables you to do something that you couldn't do otherwise. > don't FPC developers think that now is the time to follow up the language > enhancements? For example: the for..in syntax, reintroduce keyword, sub > class (class field), etc. IMHO No. Stability and usability on D7 level is more important, than the relatively uninteresting extensions. Things like COM support and packages are way more important. > Yup, perhaps I sounds pretty close to .Net syntaxes. Yup, I also knew that > FPC development won't go that direction yet. Good. > I'm just talking about the language enhancement here, for more code > portability. If you want portability, simply don't use D2005 syntax. > Say, I'll be able to compile my Delphi.Net code using FPC > running on Linux. Maybe I'm just dreaming about the 'real' concept of > "write once, compile everywhere". :D Write it in D7 and compile it everywhere. > Maybe we can start it from FPC v.2.2. Or FPC v.3.0? What do you think? :) To my knowledge there are no plans for post-D7 support. The whole point is compability with Delphi.NET, and there is not much interest in that anyway. _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
