Modern Pascal Dialect [was Re: [fpc-devel] Re: [fpc-l] type discussion]

2005-06-04 Thread Jamie McCracken
Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote: You obviously missed that a compiler does not only consist of scanner and parser, but that optimizers and code generators also have to be implemented. For multiple target platforms and CPU's... The new dialect simply makes the syntax less annoying and verbose - it

Re: Modern Pascal Dialect [was Re: [fpc-devel] Re: [fpc-l] type discussion]

2005-06-04 Thread Nico Aragón
El Sábado, 4 de Junio de 2005 11:00, Jamie McCracken escribió: I had thought of that but thats problematic for debugging. IE the compiler returns line numbers for errors and they will not match if I use an external preprocessor. See the recent thread How to manually control debug information