On Fri, 30 Apr 2021, Bo Berglund via fpc-pascal wrote:
On Tue, 27 Apr 2021 10:52:28 -0600, Ryan Joseph via fpc-pascal
wrote:
On Apr 27, 2021, at 9:58 AM, Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
Wait.
Is this thread intentionally moved from fpc-devel?
No. Mistake, due to mailing list settings an
On Tue, 27 Apr 2021 10:52:28 -0600, Ryan Joseph via fpc-pascal
wrote:
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>> On Apr 27, 2021, at 9:58 AM, Michael Van Canneyt
>> wrote:
>>
>> Wait.
Is this thread intentionally moved from fpc-devel?
Seems to have started there but suddenly moved to general
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> On Apr 29, 2021, at 12:01 AM, Sven Barth wrote:
>
> To be precise there are two more: function/procedure variables (no special
> designator) and method variables ("of object"). Depending on what a anonymous
> function captures (or for the sake of it a nested function) it would be
> possibl
On 2021-04-29 09:00, Mattias Gaertner via fpc-pascal wrote:
On Thu, 29 Apr 2021 07:52:19 +0200
Sven Barth via fpc-pascal wrote:
[...]
You completely ignored my first point, which in this case is the much
more significant one: Pascal does not support type inference.
FPC does not.
Delphi does:
On 29/04/2021 8:00 am, Mattias Gaertner via fpc-pascal wrote:
> FPC does not.
> Delphi does:
If only FPC would have strived to be Delphi Compatible. ;-) :-P
Regards,
Graeme
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On Thu, 29 Apr 2021 07:52:19 +0200
Sven Barth via fpc-pascal wrote:
>[...]
> You completely ignored my first point, which in this case is the much
> more significant one: Pascal does not support type inference.
FPC does not.
Delphi does:
http://docwiki.embarcadero.com/RADStudio/Sydney/en/Inline_
Ryan Joseph via fpc-pascal schrieb am
Mi., 28. Apr. 2021, 17:53:
>
>
> > On Apr 27, 2021, at 11:36 PM, Sven Barth
> wrote:
> >
> > Anyway, it would in principle be possible to convert an anonymous
> function to a "is nested" function, but that will only come *after* the
> whole implementation is
Martin Frb via fpc-pascal schrieb am Mi.,
28. Apr. 2021, 19:26:
> On 28/04/2021 18:43, Graeme Geldenhuys via fpc-pascal wrote:
> > Hello Sven,
> >
> > On 28/04/2021 6:32 am, Sven Barth via fpc-pascal wrote:
> >> Second: the syntax is required for Delphi compatibility anyway
> > Couldn't such verb
Graeme Geldenhuys via fpc-pascal schrieb
am Mi., 28. Apr. 2021, 19:00:
> Hello Sven,
>
> On 28/04/2021 6:32 am, Sven Barth via fpc-pascal wrote:
> > Second: the syntax is required for Delphi compatibility anyway
>
> Couldn't such verbose syntax be limited to {$mode delphi} behaviour,
> and then l
On 28/04/2021 6:26 pm, Martin Frb via fpc-pascal wrote:
> Would omitting the type info not lead to issues with overloaded functions?
Luckily others have already solved that problem. :-) Here is Java's JSR-355
and overloading is covered in Section F.
https://jcp.org/aboutJava/communityprocess/f
> On Apr 28, 2021, at 10:43 AM, Graeme Geldenhuys via fpc-pascal
> wrote:
>
> Couldn't such verbose syntax be limited to {$mode delphi} behaviour,
> and then leave {$mode objfpc} free to experiment and introduce new
> less verbose syntax in the language.
Sven is having none of this and for go
On 28/04/2021 18:43, Graeme Geldenhuys via fpc-pascal wrote:
Hello Sven,
On 28/04/2021 6:32 am, Sven Barth via fpc-pascal wrote:
Second: the syntax is required for Delphi compatibility anyway
Couldn't such verbose syntax be limited to {$mode delphi} behaviour,
and then leave {$mode objfpc} fre
Hello Sven,
On 28/04/2021 6:32 am, Sven Barth via fpc-pascal wrote:
> Second: the syntax is required for Delphi compatibility anyway
Couldn't such verbose syntax be limited to {$mode delphi} behaviour,
and then leave {$mode objfpc} free to experiment and introduce new
less verbose syntax in the
> On Apr 27, 2021, at 11:36 PM, Sven Barth wrote:
>
> Anyway, it would in principle be possible to convert an anonymous function to
> a "is nested" function, but that will only come *after* the whole
> implementation is here so that the chance for messing that core functionality
> (!) up is
Am 28.04.2021 um 00:53 schrieb Graeme Geldenhuys via fpc-pascal:
On 27/04/2021 10:13 pm, Ryan Joseph via fpc-pascal wrote:
value.SortEntities(function(a, b: TEntity): integer
begin
// do stuff
end
);
It seem the beginning of the thread is missing, but I wou
> On Apr 27, 2021, at 4:53 PM, Graeme Geldenhuys via fpc-pascal
> wrote:
>
> Why must the anonymous function repeat all that information again,
> as shown in the quoted code above? Can't the compiler figure all
> that out simply by inference? All the developer should have to do
> is give the 2
On 27/04/2021 10:13 pm, Ryan Joseph via fpc-pascal wrote:
> value.SortEntities(function(a, b: TEntity): integer
>begin
> // do stuff
>end
> );
It seem the beginning of the thread is missing, but I would like to
comment on something here - purely based on the exa
> On Apr 27, 2021, at 2:23 PM, Ryan Joseph wrote:
>
> But why would it do that when we could use an alternate code path that uses
> nested functions instead? Maybe I'm not being clear but we can do BOTH
> depending the situation when one is better than the other. This is just an
> optimizati
> On Apr 27, 2021, at 2:17 PM, Sven Barth via fpc-pascal
> wrote:
>
> It will *always* create an interface. It's just how the compiler will wrap it.
But why would it do that when we could use an alternate code path that uses
nested functions instead? Maybe I'm not being clear but we can do B
Am 27.04.2021 um 19:56 schrieb Michael Van Canneyt via fpc-pascal:
On Tue, 27 Apr 2021, Ryan Joseph via fpc-pascal wrote:
On Apr 27, 2021, at 9:58 AM, Michael Van Canneyt
wrote:
Wait.
I asked Sven to make sure that nested functions are under ALL
circumstances
usable as closures or ca
On Tue, 27 Apr 2021, Ryan Joseph via fpc-pascal wrote:
On Apr 27, 2021, at 9:58 AM, Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
Wait.
I asked Sven to make sure that nested functions are under ALL circumstances
usable as closures or can be used instead of anonymous functions.
Pas2js already supports this
> On Apr 27, 2021, at 9:58 AM, Michael Van Canneyt
> wrote:
>
> Wait.
>
> I asked Sven to make sure that nested functions are under ALL circumstances
> usable as closures or can be used instead of anonymous functions.
>
> Pas2js already supports this, and I want FPC and Pas2JS to be compatib
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