Re: [fpc-devel] FPC Language Specification

2019-05-21 Thread J. Gareth Moreton
Normally, you have a committee of people working on such things, and on top you have a backlog which will probably take the rest of your life to catch up with. But hey, it's your time, don't let me stop you... Michael. Well, I'm going to be living those years anyway, and despite some occasi

Re: [fpc-devel] FPC Language Specification

2019-05-20 Thread michael
On 2019-05-20 21:59, J. Gareth Moreton wrote: On 20/05/2019 09:44, Michael Van Canneyt wrote: On Mon, 20 May 2019, J. Gareth Moreton wrote: While there is documentation online that can easily explain all of this, I find it's only truly useful if you are looking up details on a specific featur

Re: [fpc-devel] FPC Language Specification

2019-05-20 Thread J. Gareth Moreton
On 20/05/2019 09:44, Michael Van Canneyt wrote: On Mon, 20 May 2019, J. Gareth Moreton wrote: While there is documentation online that can easily explain all of this, I find it's only truly useful if you are looking up details on a specific feature - for example, the standard of expanding

Re: [fpc-devel] FPC Language Specification

2019-05-20 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Mon, 20 May 2019, J. Gareth Moreton wrote: While there is documentation online that can easily explain all of this, I find it's only truly useful if you are looking up details on a specific feature - for example, the standard of expanding intermediate expressions to the CPU word size ha

[fpc-devel] FPC Language Specification

2019-05-19 Thread J. Gareth Moreton
So after my argument and the counterarguments regarding the new case block warnings, I'm starting to wonder if a semi-official specification should be written for FPC's dialect of Pascal, much like ISO 7185 for Extended Pascal.  While FPC is probably the only tool that will use this dialect, it