On Fri, Jul 20, 2018 at 12:20 AM, Sven Barth via fpc-pascal <fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org> wrote: > Am 20.07.2018 um 00:53 schrieb Ben Grasset: >> >> If a feature works as intended and is useful (which is all that matters), >> how is it "blind copying"? > > Because a feature might change the language in a way that's not in the > spirit of the language. Look at how Delphi implemented attributes: they're > declared in front of the types, fields, parameters, whatever, simply copied > from how C# implemented them while in the spirit of Pascal they should have > been *after* the declarations. >
This is what bothers me about some of the Delphi extensions that are requested, but also some things that are already in FPC. And like other people have said: now it's too late. It's there forever, or a length of time that is just as good when talking about software. It's not to say all of these things are bad - it's just I wish more thought would have gone into them. Perhaps that would mean changing the feature so much that it doesn't resemble what was originally proposed. Cheers, R0b0t1 _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal