On Tue, 13 Oct 2015 23:25:03 +0200 (CEST) Michael Van Canneyt <mich...@freepascal.org> wrote:
>[...] > The argument that we can refrain from using these new features does not hold, > because other people will be using it, and we will have to know all of it to > be able to understand their code. And it costs precious time of documentation and tool writers, who are already lacking behind. And every new feature makes the compiler a bit slower, costing time of all users. Each new feature must present a solid case, why it is needed aka outweighs the downside. > None of these features will automagically make Object Pascal a popular > language. > > However, I seem to be one of the very few thinking this given the enthousiasm > with > which people are discussing this. Are you kidding? Some people are already forking FPC because of such things. > Soon I will be forced to emigrate to Javascript country. > Despite all its drawbacks, it remains at least a simple language. > a dozen keywords and you're done. No wonder Node.js is so popular. > Compare that with the jungle we're making of it... :( Well, then you should vote against this new functionality. Mattias _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
