Re: [fpc-devel] Variables declaraction inside code

2011-01-13 Thread Sven Barth
On 13.01.2011 02:20, Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote: LacaK schrieb: 3. C style comments: /* ... */ (I have never understood why in Pascal was used (* ... *) ) Pascal has several digraphs: (* = { *) = } (. = [ .) = ] I must say, that I have not yet known about the alternatives for the squared b

Re: [fpc-devel] Variables declaraction inside code

2011-01-12 Thread Hans-Peter Diettrich
LacaK schrieb: 3. C style comments: /* ... */ (I have never understood why in Pascal was used (* ... *) ) Pascal has several digraphs: (* = { *) = } (. = [ .) = ] These reflect the missing or hard to access keycodes on non-English keyboards. The C language is not so user friendly :-( DoDi

Re: [fpc-devel] Variables declaraction inside code

2011-01-12 Thread Marco van de Voort
In our previous episode, LacaK said: > 3. C style comments: /* ... */ (I have never understood why in Pascal > was used (* ... *) ) You probably have to formulate that the other way around. Pascal is older. ___ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.fre

Re: [fpc-devel] Variables declaraction inside code

2011-01-12 Thread Aleksa Todorovic
On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 11:41, LacaK wrote: > > 3. C style comments: /* ... */ (I have never understood why in Pascal was > used (* ... *) ) Because they are much more clear and easy to understand (both for compiler and for reader). C comments are very-very-very ugly. For example, you can write t

Re: [fpc-devel] Variables declaraction inside code

2011-01-12 Thread LacaK
This was discussed few times here. Later ppl tired from the endless discussions and summarised their ideas on this page: http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Modernised_Pascal Nice! For me, If I can say is most interested: 1. try ... except ... finally ... end; 2. C style IIF operator: l ? tru

Re: [fpc-devel] Variables declaraction inside code

2011-01-12 Thread michael . vancanneyt
On Wed, 12 Jan 2011, Paul Ishenin wrote: 12.01.2011 14:15, kingbiz...@gmail.com wrote: Something that I always thought very nice on other languages is the possible of adding variables inside the codes, I'm very happy using the FPC but came on my mind, FPC is always getting better and better (

Re: [fpc-devel] Variables declaraction inside code

2011-01-12 Thread Paul Ishenin
12.01.2011 14:15, kingbiz...@gmail.com wrote: Something that I always thought very nice on other languages is the possible of adding variables inside the codes, I'm very happy using the FPC but came on my mind, FPC is always getting better and better (I first saw it like 2 years ago and I am impr

[fpc-devel] Variables declaraction inside code

2011-01-11 Thread kingbiz...@gmail.com
Something that I always thought very nice on other languages is the possible of adding variables inside the codes, I'm very happy using the FPC but came on my mind, FPC is always getting better and better (I first saw it like 2 years ago and I am impressed with its progress), would it on the fu