On Tue, 17 Jul 2018 12:04:19 +0200 Martin <f...@mfriebe.de> wrote: > But more troubling: > You do no longer have a complete list of all local vars. That means, if > I want to add a (current style) local var "i", i may have to scan the > entire procedure (maybe hundreds of lines) to find if there already is a > nested "i" Wouldn't you need to refactor this procedure anyway into 20 line chunks and nuke the guy that wrote it? ;)
Btw I don't support the proposed changes as I don't see the need to get all and every language on feature parity. Languages do have different design philosophies which manifest in different feature sets. So there is always more to a feature than pure functionality. I write nowadays mostly in languages which do have "block scope" and I really don't prefer one "scoping" over the other. Both make sense in the context of their respective language. And Delphi for example introduced features in a vain attempt to stay relevant which where not in the spirit of pascal. Freepascal has no need to do this. R. _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
