Re: [fpc-pascal] Function reference confuses function pointer?

2023-03-03 Thread Dwight Schauer via fpc-pascal
On 3/3/23 22:08, Hairy Pixels via fpc-pascal wrote: This caused me a nasty debugging confusion, it’s a bug right? In the program below the two parameters passed to TBinding.Create have the same address despite being function pointers to two different class methods. Calling them both call the s

Re: [fpc-pascal] Function reference confuses function pointer?

2023-03-03 Thread Dwight Schauer via fpc-pascal
On 3/3/23 22:08, Hairy Pixels via fpc-pascal wrote: This caused me a nasty debugging confusion, it’s a bug right? In the program below the two parameters passed to TBinding.Create have the same address despite being function pointers to two different class methods. Calling them both call the s

Re: [fpc-pascal] Duplicate identifier "$result"

2023-02-24 Thread Dwight Schauer via fpc-pascal
On 2/24/23 22:37, Hairy Pixels via fpc-pascal wrote: I’m trying to build a project on Windows and I’m getting the error mentioned in the subject. It appears to be from a nested function in a generic class which is using the “result” keyword to assign the value. Is this a bug or do I need to en

Re: [fpc-pascal] Programming Pascal using an AI Chatbot

2023-01-03 Thread Dwight Schauer via fpc-pascal
On 1/3/23 11:17, Anthony Walter via fpc-pascal wrote: In summary, while OpenGPT is obviously imperfect, generally it feels like a revolutionary leap forward of several magnitudes. It ought to be plainly clear that the proverbial toothpaste is now out of the tube and there is no going back. T

Re: [fpc-pascal] Programming Pascal using an AI Chatbot

2023-01-03 Thread Dwight Schauer via fpc-pascal
Pascal is still limited with OpenAI ChatGPT unless you stick to very core things in Pascal, and are patient to teach it about non-core things. Limited compared Python and other languages. Asking it to do specific things Python using standard modules give better results C++ with something like

Re: [fpc-pascal] Programming Pascal using an AI Chatbot

2023-01-02 Thread Dwight Schauer via fpc-pascal
I've been played with OpenAI ChatGPT some. I had it write a few Pascal programs and refactor them into multiple units per my specifications. I did the same with other programming languages, then asked It to rewrite what I'd done with those in Pascal or one of the others. Including doing th

Re: [fpc-pascal] Working on a new way to educate people about pascal

2022-12-29 Thread Dwight Schauer via fpc-pascal
On 12/29/22 09:53, Adriaan van Os via fpc-pascal wrote: Modern mathematics education tries to teach by showing graphs and pictures, instead of formulas and proofs. But, by doing so, it misses the most important point — that mathematics is about abstract thinking. You will never get around the

Re: [fpc-pascal] Working on a new way to educate people about pascal

2022-12-29 Thread Dwight Schauer via fpc-pascal
On 12/28/22 06:01, Hairy Pixels via fpc-pascal wrote: On Dec 28, 2022, at 4:45 PM, wkitty42--- via fpc-pascal wrote: like james, i also have like 40-45 years programming experience... 99% of my stuff is still text mode tools and apps... GUI stuff has just never made sense to me... Just c

Re: [fpc-pascal] FPC coding standards

2020-08-18 Thread Dwight Schauer via fpc-pascal
On Wed, 2020-08-19 at 02:03 +0200, Michael Van Canneyt wrote: > > On Tue, 18 Aug 2020, Dwight Schauer via fpc-pascal wrote: > As long as the code only gets alterned into something logically > > equivalaent, and as long as I can retreive the contents of comments > > f

Re: [fpc-pascal] FPC coding standards

2020-08-18 Thread Dwight Schauer via fpc-pascal
On Tue, 2020-08-18 at 23:17 +0200, Marco van de Voort via fpc-pascal wrote: > Op 2020-08-18 om 23:01 schreef Sven Barth via fpc-pascal: > > Might be the even better solution as fcl-passrc will be better > > maintained due to it being used for both the documentation utility > > fpdoc as well as pa

Re: [fpc-pascal] FPC coding standards

2020-08-18 Thread Dwight Schauer via fpc-pascal
On Tue, 2020-08-18 at 14:11 +0200, Sven Barth wrote: > Not that I know. Most formatters will barf on some of the syntax > extensions that FPC provides (see the Jedi Code Formatter that barfs > on generic syntax). Even ptop might fail on newer language > extensions... > > So improving ptop might i

Re: [fpc-pascal] FPC coding standards

2020-08-18 Thread Dwight Schauer via fpc-pascal
On Tue, 2020-08-18 at 11:08 +0200, Sven Barth via fpc-pascal wrote: > ... > There is no default configuration, because there is not one default > standard. ... Understood. > Rule of thumb is that contributions should fit into the existing > style. In general when it comes to programming it is b

[fpc-pascal] FPC coding standards

2020-08-17 Thread Dwight Schauer via fpc-pascal
Hello FPC Pascal users, Is there a default ptop.cfg somewhere that follows the FPC coding standards? https://wiki.freepascal.org/Coding_style I'm not looking to submit any PR in the near future, I just want to be able to automatically reformat my code to conform to what I consider a reasonable