On Monday 02 October 2006 10:40, Vincent Snijders wrote: > Chris Cheney schreef: > > C'est magnifique, mais ce n'est pas la guerre. > > > > Two Very Bad Things: > > > > * The restriction increases the context sensitivity of the language. > > What do you mean? It thought it reduces the context sensitivity, because > the context is less important to determine what a identifier means. But > maybe I missed your point.
I'm pretty sure he means that no can no longer, for example, copy a function from one class to another, without risking having to rewrite all the parameter names. > > * The restriction increases the number of incompatibilities with Delphi > > and therefore increases the difficulty of porting existing programs. > > For porting Delphi programs, compile the unit with -Sd. That's true, but it's still irritating for people who want to go from delphi mode to objfpc mode. Particularly since it doesn't help them at all. -- Regards, Christian Iversen _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
