[fpc-pascal] D language and Object Pascal

2007-10-10 Thread Jilani Khaldi
Hi All, just curious about the D language (http://www.digitalmars.com/d/index.html), I read some articles on the site, downloaded the compiler... and wrote some little examples. Well, many of the things that the author presented as new and hot features are already present in Turbo Pascal or in

Re: [fpc-pascal] D language and Object Pascal

2007-10-10 Thread Leonardo M. Ram
> > What's wrong with > http://www.freepascal.org/docs-html/ref/refch8.html#x79-860008 ? See http://www.freepascal.org/docs-html/ref/refse39.html I was reading the document and noted this hughe image with blanks http://www.freepascal.org/docs-html/ref/ref100x.png that really looks bad. Anyway,

Re: [fpc-pascal] D language and Object Pascal

2007-10-10 Thread Matt Emson
Jilani Khaldi wrote: Hi All, just curious about the D language (http://www.digitalmars.com/d/index.html), I read some articles on the site, downloaded the compiler... and wrote some little examples. Well, many of the things that the author presented as new and hot features are already present

Re: [fpc-pascal] D language and Object Pascal

2007-10-10 Thread Florian Klaempfl
Jilani Khaldi schrieb: > Hi All, > just curious about the D language > (http://www.digitalmars.com/d/index.html), I read some articles on the > site, downloaded the compiler... and wrote some little examples. Well, > many of the things that the author presented as new and hot features are > already

Re: [fpc-pascal] D language and Object Pascal

2007-10-10 Thread Jilani Khaldi
What's wrong with http://www.freepascal.org/docs-html/ref/refch8.html#x79-860008 ? Nothing, once completed. -- Jilani KHALDI ___ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal

Re: [fpc-pascal] D language and Object Pascal

2007-10-10 Thread Florian Klaempfl
Jilani Khaldi schrieb: >> What's wrong with >> http://www.freepascal.org/docs-html/ref/refch8.html#x79-860008 ? > Nothing, once completed. Well, it's completed or do you miss things? but still under testing ;) ___ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists

Re: [fpc-pascal] D language and Object Pascal

2007-10-10 Thread Mattias Gaertner
On Wed, 10 Oct 2007 16:12:03 +0200 Florian Klaempfl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jilani Khaldi schrieb: > >> What's wrong with > >> http://www.freepascal.org/docs-html/ref/refch8.html#x79-860008 ? > > Nothing, once completed. > > Well, it's completed or do you miss things? but still under testing

Re: [fpc-pascal] D language and Object Pascal

2007-10-10 Thread Florian Klaempfl
Mattias Gaertner schrieb: > On Wed, 10 Oct 2007 16:12:03 +0200 > Florian Klaempfl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Jilani Khaldi schrieb: What's wrong with http://www.freepascal.org/docs-html/ref/refch8.html#x79-860008 ? >>> Nothing, once completed. >> Well, it's completed or do you miss

Re: [fpc-pascal] D language and Object Pascal

2007-10-10 Thread Adrian Veith
Jilani Khaldi schrieb: Hi All, just curious about the D language (http://www.digitalmars.com/d/index.html), I read some articles on the site, downloaded the compiler... and wrote some little examples. Well, many of the things that the author presented as new and hot features are already pres

Re: [fpc-pascal] D language and Object Pascal

2007-10-10 Thread Jilani Khaldi
Well, it's completed or do you miss things? but still under testing ;) At this moment I, really, can't answer seen I have just begun to look at templates. I need it to translante a piece of code from D to FP. -- Jilani KHALDI ___ fpc-pascal maillist

Re: [fpc-pascal] D language and Object Pascal

2007-10-10 Thread Mattias Gaertner
On Wed, 10 Oct 2007 17:07:45 +0200 Florian Klaempfl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mattias Gaertner schrieb: > > On Wed, 10 Oct 2007 16:12:03 +0200 > > Florian Klaempfl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> Jilani Khaldi schrieb: > What's wrong with > http://www.freepascal.org/docs-html/ref

Re: [fpc-pascal] D language and Object Pascal

2007-10-10 Thread Jilani Khaldi
oh D has more interesting things for a compiled language: - dynamic closures or delegates to nested functions - lazy evaluation - template mixins - garbage collection I am not sure if all these things are really useful - but it looks interesting. especially the delegates stuff. I think the m

Re: [fpc-pascal] D language and Object Pascal

2007-10-11 Thread Marco Ciampa
On Wed, Oct 10, 2007 at 02:53:45PM +0200, Jilani Khaldi wrote: > Hi All, > just curious about the D language > (http://www.digitalmars.com/d/index.html), I read some articles on the > site, downloaded the compiler... and wrote some little examples. Well, many > of the things that the author pres

Re: [fpc-pascal] D language and Object Pascal

2007-10-11 Thread Matt Emson
Marco Ciampa wrote: Yes, it's so sad to see people that waste time reinventing the wheel... To be fair to Walter, you have to look at his history. He wrote a lot of different compiler implementations over the years - this is pretty much what he's been doing *since* the time of Turbo Pascal.