Am 27.01.2014 13:10 schrieb "Michael Van Canneyt" <mich...@freepascal.org>: > > > > On Mon, 27 Jan 2014, hinst wrote: > >> >> More compiler modes = more complexity = more difficulties for people who >> support & develop FPC Over time FPC and Delphi modes are becoming >> increasingly incompatible. I predict that sooner or later FPC developers >> will have to drop Delphi mode support because FPC & Delphi modes will >> become just too different to be built in one compiler. Maybe we will have >> two compilers: FreeDelphi and FreePascal. Note that Embarcadero >> introduces more and more new features to their product. FPC already can't >> support many of them. For example, string in Delphi 2009 and later is >> double-byte string; char is widechar. In FPC Char is still 1-byte char >> even in Delphi mode. What I think will happen is that at some point FPC >> will no longer be able to add more new Delphi features support to Delphi >> mode like it already happened with string=widestring, so Delphi mode in >> FPC will always mean Delphi 2007 and earlier. > > > We will add string=widestring in the next (or next+1) trunk release.
Nitpicking: it's String=UnicodeString. WideString is at least on Windows systems something different... > What else is missing ? Only anonymous functions, to my knowledge. Extended RTTI, generic methods (and depending on who you ask: ARC for classes) Regards, Sven
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