On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 10:56, Juha Manninen <juha.manni...@phnet.fi> wrote: > > Object Pascal is otherwise a nice language but there are few annoying syntax > details that other languages have solved better. Three such cases pop into my > mind: > > 1. This semicolon / no semicolon irritation.
I'm trying to solve that one :-) So, here's an updated patch with several improvements: - parser now only uses some additional info from scanner, it doesn't do any modification to scanner internals - full backward compatibility: problematic else inside case is correctly recognized (weather it is part of last if statement or part of case, including nested if/else-s) - modified fpc can successfully recompile trunk versions of fpc and lazarus (as well as projects I work on) and everything seems to work fine - there is also test program, but it uses ordinary Writeln-s, still need to see how convert that to true fpc test Due to deadlines I have these days, I wont have time to work more on this. After that, if there is good will to accept this patch, I will gladly take some time to make tests and do any modifications needed. If not, there is another thing I badly need - generics of records, so I'll try to make them usable (before, as Florian said in ticket we "bite the bullet and support methods and operators inside records :/"). Regards, Aleksa
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