| More code bloat, more typing and they get in the way. They dont give me | anything useful in return.
Why do you even bother using Pascal, it seems you obviously do not like one bit about it. | | | > Garbage collection is largely no issue when using the Owner concept in TComponent, using TObjectList, etc. | | True and thats why I suggested ref counting Tobjects only so that no | manual memory management is required. I tend to make heavy use of TList, | Tstringlist and TFilestream objects so I cant do everything with | tcomponents alas. | | > | >>and a richer framework has made them switch to the dark side. We need | >>to fight back! | > | > | > Ok, but richer framework simply needs people adding packages and useful units to freepascal :-). | > | > | >>>Python is hard to read, especially if multiple blocks are closed at | >>>once, then it's hard to see what block a line belongs to (because of | >>>missing 'end' or '}'). | >> | >>not true because of the indenting (use bigger indents!). Im not saying | > | > | > Bigger indents cause the text to go too wide. More functions also help, I agree. | > | > | >>python is great I just envy *some* of its shorter syntax and it would | > | > | > Ok, some, but not this one ? | | Well typing begin..end all over the place isn't a lot of fun :( Why do you even bother using Pascal, it seems you obviously do not like one bit about it. | | Especially as Im gonna have to indent them as well just to make em | readable. So yeah it seems they are more pointless syntax bloat. | Why do you even bother using Pascal, it seems you obviously do not like one bit about it. | | >>>I also don't like the magic. For example the 'mystrings.create;' | >>>example you mentioned, it's *totally* not consistent with regular | >>>syntax: mystrings.create means call "TStringList.Create" on the | >>>object pointed to by the mystrings variable. | >> | >>Well Pascal in the only mainstream langugae that does that - I dont | >>see the pont and it aint magic. | > | > | > Sorry, the only language that does what ? | | var strlist : TStringlist; | strlist := Tstringlist.create; | | I know strlist is a Tstringlist, the compiler knows it too as I have | declared it so why do I have to spell it out in the creation process? Why do you even bother using Pascal, it seems you obviously do not like one bit about it. _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
