On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 12:59 AM, Lars <nore...@z505.com> wrote: > Personally, I'm getting sick of all the new features added to delphi that > don't add anything meaningful, and just add complexity to the compiler.
Why is compiler complexity relevant (if true at all that the new features add significant complexity)? Are you sending patches to the compiler and finds that the new features disturb this? About adding something meaningful, this varies from one person to another one. For me new features might not be useful now, but if there is a chance they might be useful in the future, then they are good features to have. Use cases are often not obvious. I would normally not think that static class methods are useful, but they were very useful for me in the early days of PasCocoa. And if a features will never be useful to me, then they will be for someone else (if they were useful for noone, then noone would have written the code to support them in the first place) And if you dont like them, you dont need to use them. The LCL rarely uses newer compiler features. I would say the same for most code in the FCL. -- Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal