On Wed, Jul 3, 2019 at 4:20 PM Ben Grasset wrote:
> const SA = `
> This is a multiline
> string using hypothetical backticks.
> Imagine it was fully syntax-highlighted
> like normal strings and the comment
> above are.
> `;
>
That would be great to have! I've definitely wanted somethin
Personally I'd LOVE to see be possible. I'm pretty sure just about every
Pascal developer out there has wanted to be able to do that kind of thing
at some point.
It's not like there's any real downsides to it either that I can think of.
It doesn't make code harder to read. It's not ambiguous (beca
On Tue, Feb 5, 2019 at 3:55 PM Ben Grasset wrote:
> Do people actually use fppkg for anything?
>
I've also been a bit confused about the recent Lazarus FPPKG work. As far
as I can tell all FPPKG itself actually does is connect to a repository
that contains roughly five outdated packages? Is ther
On Sat, Jan 26, 2019 at 7:44 PM Sven Barth via fpc-devel <
fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org> wrote:
> Changing this behavior would not only be a backwards incompatibility, but
> would also violate the ABI which describes how records shall be passed.
>
On second thought, I definitely agree with you
Not the right person to give a qualified answer to your question, but bare
record parameters in method signatures are kind of a problem throughout
various parts of the standard FPC and Lazarus libraries, I've noticed.
It almost makes me think the either the compiler should perform the kind of
opti
