Am 10.10.2012 18:42, schrieb Florian Klämpfl:
Am 10.10.2012 16:11, schrieb Bart:
On 10/10/12, Mark Morgan Lloyd <markmll.laza...@telemetry.co.uk> wrote:
As with most if not all open source projects, if we don't like it we can
fork off. However my own position is that I trust the core developers,
who are effectively defined by their understanding of how the code works.
But then again, it would be nice for committers to know if extending
an LCL component beyound it's Delphi's counterpart is considered to be
"officially" OK (as long as the extension is considered usefull and
meaningfull and not just fullfilling the needs of very few people (and
there may be more criteria)).
Getting back to the thread that stated this discussion:
I could spend time and energy on implementing an ImageList for
TDBNavigator (which Delphi doesn't have, and which maybe usefull for
more than just a few people). But i would then become very frustrated
if the patch was rejected because of "Delphi incompatibility".
The point is probably: how big is the breakage of other people's work?
Extreme example from FPC: from time to time people suggest to replace
begin ... end by { ... } even in FPC because it is easier to type. This
might be even true for a German keyboard where { means also three key
strokes but nevertheless this would break everybody's code with little
benefit because modern IDEs can take care of useless typing.
In my opinion those people haven't understood the spirit of Pascal... :(
I would even go into the opposite direction and adjust Delphi's
attribute syntax:
=== delphi example ===
type
[SomeAttribute(1, 2, 3)]
[SomeOtherAttribute]
TSomeClass = class
[Some3rdAttribute('a', 'b')]
property SomeProperty {...};
end;
=== delphi example ===
to a more Pascal like:
=== hypothetical example ===
type
TSomeClass = class
property SomeProperty {...} attributes [Some3rdAttribute('a', 'b')];
end attributes [SomeAttribute(1, 2, 3), SomeOtherAttribute];
=== hypothetical example ===
And if Joost isn't fast enough with his attributes branch I might do
that indeed ;P
Regards,
Sven
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