On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 19:35, Jonas Maebe <jonas.ma...@elis.ugent.be> wrote: > > On 17 Oct 2009, at 08:22, Paul Ishenin wrote: > >> Alexander Klenin wrote: >>> >>> 3) This patch introduces new keyword -- what about backwards >>> compatibility? The code like: >>> type T = class sealed: Boolean; end; >>> will stop compiling after the patch. Maybe it is better to use another >>> syntax? >>> >> Same with any other keywords. If we want to compile delphi projects then >> we need to support delphi syntax. > > Are they real keywords in Delphi? E.g., a lot of modifiers such as "default" > and "register" are not keywords. You can perfectly declare variables of > procedures with these names. >
This is not the question of terminology (though I think the proper term in this case is "non-reserved keyword"), but of the fact that some programs that compiled previously will stop compiling after that patch. -- Alexander S. Klenin _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
