Am 20.10.2010 13:44, schrieb Alexander Klenin: > On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 22:33, Florian Klaempfl <flor...@freepascal.org> > wrote: >> Am 20.10.2010 12:27, schrieb Alexander Klenin: >>> >>> This sub-thread was started by mentioning the series of errors >>> my student made when trying to implement case of string. >>> Most of them was due to the fact the code used pchars and records >>> instead of strings and (hierarchy of) objects. >>> Surely, a more qualified developer would probably have avoided these, >>> but still I think this is a good demonstration of adverse side-effects >>> of micro-optimizations. >> >> FPC is a production compiler and not an educational project. See >> Martin's email, people care about the speed of FPC. > > Surely I did not imply that lowering barrier for entry should be > the primary goal of the FPC project (although that would be a nice > side-effect). > I meant to demonstrate that the current code structure encourages failure, > which, of course, may be overcome with enough effort by > highly-qualified developer. >
Imo somebody working on a compiler should understand pchars and use them properly as well as e.g. a compiler developer needs very good assembler knowledge. _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
