Re: [fpc-devel] weak referencing (was Suggestion:.....)

2014-09-22 Thread John Briggs
On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 07:21:46PM +0200, Sven Barth wrote: > Am 22.09.2014 17:11 schrieb "Jonas Maebe" : > > > > > > On 22 Sep 2014, at 16:44, Peter Popov wrote: > > > >> Another comment: If referenced objects all derive from a single base, > then, the user cannot possibly have another hierarchy,

Re: [fpc-devel] format function

2006-10-13 Thread John Briggs
On Thu, Oct 12, 2006 at 03:24:14PM +0200, Florian Klaempfl wrote: > Andrea Mauri wrote: > > Jonas Maebe wrote: > >> > >> Not only that, but -0.000 is different from 0.000 (at least for the fpu) > >> > >> > >> Jonas > > In a mathematical way of view I think that -0.000 has no meaning. It does it me

Re: [fpc-devel] Generics Basics

2005-11-13 Thread John Briggs
On Fri, Nov 11, 2005 at 08:50:09AM +0100, Micha Nelissen wrote: > John Briggs wrote: > >The one thing that does concern me is why implement generics if you fail > >to implement the late binding of the objects which to me is the greatest > >gain of > >generic prog

Re: [fpc-devel] Generics Basics

2005-11-10 Thread John Briggs
On Tue, Nov 08, 2005 at 10:00:49PM +0100, dannym wrote: > Hi, > > Am Dienstag, den 08.11.2005, 18:10 -0200 schrieb Felipe Monteiro de > Carvalho: > > Hello, > > > > I am trying to understand what exactly generics are. I read the wiki > > page, but there are lot's of code examples and very few exp

[fpc-devel] Generic Programming Units

2005-06-20 Thread John Briggs
This is a repost of an earlier response to another thread. I did not recieve any response so I am posting this in its own thread. I have several old books (circa 1991), including source code, covering TP6 in my library. Perhaps the most interesting one covers generic programming. It covers model

Re: [fpc-devel] Extend the libraries people!

2005-06-09 Thread John Briggs
On Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 12:41:30AM +0200, Michael Van Canneyt wrote: > > > On Thu, 9 Jun 2005, L505 wrote: > > > | > > | | Do not look at delphi copyrighted source, but get info from public > > sources > > | | like helpfiles for download on Borlands FTP etc. > > | | > > | | This should be enoug

Re: [fpc-devel] gdb for win

2005-05-01 Thread John Briggs
On Sun, May 01, 2005 at 11:48:42PM +0200, Uberto Barbini wrote: > On Sunday 01 May 2005 21:39, Florian Klaempfl wrote: > > Uberto Barbini wrote: > > > Hi, > > > I'd like to understand which gdb is better to use for current fpc-cvs, > > > the one in cvs/install/binw32 or mingw one? > > > > If that o

Re: [fpc-devel] WTF? Type checking dependent on compilation mode!?

2005-04-26 Thread John Briggs
On Tue, Apr 26, 2005 at 10:47:16AM -0400, Angelo Bertolli wrote: > I usually don't say anything, but I wanted to throw my opinion on this > as well. This is important to me as someone who likes Pascal as a > learning tool (teaching tool), and as a language which adheres to > certain ideals. I