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From: "Florian Klaempfl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "FPC developers' list"
Sent: Sunday, June 05, 2005 4:23 PM
Subject: Re: [fpc-devel] using strupper,strlower on german words
Hans-Jörg Vasold wrote:
- Original Message - From: "Florian Klaempfl" <[EMAIL
Object pascal is a mature language. Some languages even adopt the concept, such
as C# or Java, with different syntaxes and styles. Do not listen to people who
said pascal is a toy language, they just don't know what they're talking about.
Then, if we are talking about the object pascal compilers
> > using them hard or impossible becomes a toy language.
>
> But it doesn't. The only time they are a problem is when the stuff you
> are storing in the tree or list is an *object* and that *object* points
> back to either the container or the list that stores it (which is very
> rarely done).
Sorry for the late reply..
On Thu, 2005-05-19 at 19:03 +0200, Bram Kuijvenhoven wrote:
> After understanding what a VARCHAR is (namely some sort of shortstring
> with a fixed maximum length), I wanted first to know whether a newer
> MySQL server reports proper field lengths for fields like 'FORMAT
On Sun, 5 Jun 2005, Florian Klaempfl wrote:
> Hans-Jörg Vasold wrote:
>
> >
> > - Original Message - From: "Florian Klaempfl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: "FPC developers' list"
> > Sent: Sunday, June 05, 2005 3:59 PM
> > Subject: Re: [fpc-devel] using strupper,strlower on german words
Hans-Jörg Vasold wrote:
>
> - Original Message - From: "Florian Klaempfl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "FPC developers' list"
> Sent: Sunday, June 05, 2005 3:59 PM
> Subject: Re: [fpc-devel] using strupper,strlower on german words
>
>
>> Hans-Jörg Vasold wrote:
>>
>>> StrUpper, StrLower w
- Original Message -
From: "Florian Klaempfl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "FPC developers' list"
Sent: Sunday, June 05, 2005 3:59 PM
Subject: Re: [fpc-devel] using strupper,strlower on german words
Hans-Jörg Vasold wrote:
StrUpper, StrLower will not work for the german "äöüß".
Are an
Hans-Jörg Vasold wrote:
> StrUpper, StrLower will not work for the german "äöüß".
>
> Are any equivalent functions like Delphi's AnsiUpperCase or any fix
AnsiUpperCase?
> available ?
>
> thx
>
> Hans Joerg
>
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StrUpper, StrLower will not work for the german "äöüß".
Are any equivalent functions like Delphi's AnsiUpperCase or any fix
available ?
thx
Hans Joerg
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On Sun, 5 Jun 2005, Jamie McCracken wrote:
> Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
>
> > I suggest you create an external preprocessor, and limit yourself to
> > that.
> >
> > I don't consider your construct to be Pascal, so I will fight inclusion
> > of it in the compiler, not even under some {$Mode} co
| will respect your wishes and no feelings will be hurt. I believe it will
| help Pascal and breathe new life into it especially as its a dying
| language. I also note there is no such thing as "Pascal" as such even
| Delphi has significant syntax differences with earlier pascal variants
| so I ho
On 05 Jun 2005, at 15:22, Jamie McCracken wrote:
I believe it will help Pascal and breathe new life into it
especially as its a dying language.
And with the above insightful and undoubtedly uncontroversial comment
I think we can close this thread here. I would therefore like to ask
all p
Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
I suggest you create an external preprocessor, and limit yourself to that.
I don't consider your construct to be Pascal, so I will fight inclusion of it
in the compiler, not even under some {$Mode} construct.
Well all I ask is you wait til I have written it then g
On Sun, 5 Jun 2005, Jamie McCracken wrote:
> Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
> >
> > On Sun, 5 Jun 2005, Jamie McCracken wrote:
> >
> >
> > > Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > > > Not at all; I certainly don't indent them, and I'm a fanatical
> > > > > indenter.
> > > >
> > > >
> >
Daniël Mantione wrote:
Op Sun, 5 Jun 2005, schreef Jamie McCracken:
yes but isn't it fair to say that such developers that require such
structures would be knowledgable enough to make it safe by using weak refs?
What is a weak ref?
Allows you to make a reference without increasing or aff
05-06-04 08.41, skrev Tom Verhoeff följande:
> In the source repository, the current version for
> trunk/compiler/utils/samplecfg
> has a line
>
> #-Fu~/fpc/packages/base/*/units/$fpctarget;~/fpc/fcll/units/$fpctarget;~/fpc/r
> tl/units/$fpctarget
>
> Since it is commented out, it does not matte
Op Sun, 5 Jun 2005, schreef Jamie McCracken:
> yes but isn't it fair to say that such developers that require such
> structures would be knowledgable enough to make it safe by using weak refs?
What is a weak ref?
> My point is that the everyday structures that most developers (and in
> particu
L505 wrote:
Now there are some bondage discipline languages and Pascal is considered one..
even
though it's not case sensitive.. isn't indentation sort of bondage-discipline?
of course it is - any formal language will have some "bondage" in their
syntax. Indentation and Begin..End are such e
Daniël Mantione wrote:
Op Sun, 5 Jun 2005, schreef Jamie McCracken:
Its not a black or white issue IMO its a shade of grey. At the end of
the day you have to make a judgement call based on the facts. Im
asserting that with non-component objects the incidence of cycles is so
rare that provided
Neat, I haven't come across these yet.
If you -have- got some working under FPC you should upload them to "contributed
units"
section. Because if other people convert the units which have already been done
by
someone else, we would be doing double work ;-) Plus it gets code into a central
reposi
| yes you are right it exists for the benefit of the compiler rather than
| the developer.
incorrect. When reading code I always use the bold begin/end's. Why do you
think they
are bold? Are they bold because the compiler likes them bold? See, a bold begin
and
end is a lot easier to see than a
Op Sun, 5 Jun 2005, schreef Jamie McCracken:
> Its not a black or white issue IMO its a shade of grey. At the end of
> the day you have to make a judgement call based on the facts. Im
> asserting that with non-component objects the incidence of cycles is so
> rare that provided we have a means o
|
| lol - thats not what I meant. If you want readable code you indent
| inside the begin..end blocks ergo the begin..end syntax becomes
| redundant cause its the indentation that provides the visual cue.
|
That's like taking question marks out of sentences that you know are questions.
Why
have
Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
On Sun, 5 Jun 2005, Jamie McCracken wrote:
Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote:
Not at all; I certainly don't indent them, and I'm a fanatical
indenter.
Agreed. I really can't understand why some people indent like this:
if ...
then
begin
...
end
else
if
...
lol
On Fri, 03 Jun 2005 01:26:34 -0400, you wrote:
>> What makes python interesting are the many classes it offers by default
>> to perform standard tasks, especially in the text treatment department;
>> regular expression stuff etc.
>>
>> The same goes for most languages; Mostly it's not the language
On Sun, 5 Jun 2005, Jamie McCracken wrote:
> Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote:
>
> > > Not at all; I certainly don't indent them, and I'm a fanatical
> > > indenter.
> >
> >
> > Agreed. I really can't understand why some people indent like this:
> > if ...
> > then
> > begin
> > ...
> > end
> > e
Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote:
Not at all; I certainly don't indent them, and I'm a fanatical
indenter.
Agreed. I really can't understand why some people indent like this:
if ...
then
begin
...
end
else
if
...
lol - thats not what I meant. If you want readab
Jamie McCracken wrote:
> Those lazarus tools are great but they require advance knowledge of
> those tools that new users wont have (at least somebody using lazarus
> for the first time is not going to know all the keyboard shortcuts). Not
> having to rely on hacks around the coding inefficiency o
Angelo Bertolli wrote:
> > Begin..End is redundant - you have to indent them to make em readable
> > anyways.
> >
> Not at all; I certainly don't indent them, and I'm a fanatical
> indenter.
Agreed. I really can't understand why some people indent like this:
if ...
then
begin
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