Am 16.05.2014 19:00, schrieb Craig Peterson: > On 5/16/2014 11:18 AM, Florian Klämpfl wrote: >> Isn't using anonymous methods in this case only a work around for missing >> OpenMP support? > > Absolutely, but neither Free Pascal nor Delphi implement OpenMP.
I wanted only to point out that personally I would first work on OpenMP support than implementing anonymous methods (which I consider anyways very un-pascalish) and closures. > The > OpenMP page on the Free Pascal wiki hasn't been significantly changed > since 2008, which coincidentally is the last time Allen Bauer blogged > about his "Delphi Parallel Library". I'm looking for something that I > can use soon, not in 5 years. To be honest, I see anonymous methods and closures not much earlier in a stable release: if they are not implemented and merged during the next few months, they will not go into the next major release (somewhere in 2015). Between major releases we have usually 3 years, so 4 years at least as well for anonymous methods/closures. > > I'm not sure what you mean by the "But that's it?" though. Yes, they're > just syntax sugar. Yes, that's what I meant. Closures/anonymous methods allow sometimes (in my eyes seldomly) some source line savings in modern pascal, no more no less. _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
