Re: [fpc-pascal] Documentation and posts suggestions [LONG]

2009-03-16 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Sun, 15 Mar 2009, Francisco Reyes wrote: > Tomas Hajny writes: > > > I'm not sure if Francisco meant the Reference Guide or possibly some > > examples appearing in the other documents; > > I was looking specifically about the rtl pdf. > > > >if it's the latter, a more concrete example wou

Re: [fpc-pascal] Documentation and posts suggestions [LONG]

2009-03-16 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Sun, 15 Mar 2009, Tomas Hajny wrote: > > > * In cases were some code needs a particular mode other than the default > > > mode > > > we can include which mode is needed. > > > > There is no need for this: Classes and exception handling always need mode > > objfpc > > or Delphi. Regular fu

Re: [fpc-pascal] Documentation and posts suggestions [LONG]

2009-03-15 Thread Jonas Maebe
On 15 Mar 2009, at 23:20, Francisco Reyes wrote: Michael Van Canneyt writes: or Delphi. Regular functions do not need a mode at all. This is a simple rule, which can easily be remembered, no ? If those are the only two cases sure, but if there are other instances that may suffer from the

Re: [fpc-pascal] Documentation and posts suggestions [LONG]

2009-03-15 Thread Francisco Reyes
Tomas Hajny writes: I'm not sure if Francisco meant the Reference Guide or possibly some examples appearing in the other documents; I was looking specifically about the rtl pdf. if it's the latter, a more concrete example would be probably useful. Where are the examples? I recall seem the

Re: [fpc-pascal] Documentation and posts suggestions [LONG]

2009-03-15 Thread Francisco Reyes
Michael Van Canneyt writes: The unit name is always displayed on the top of the page. Thanks for pointing it out. Every time I have used the rtl.pdf I have used primarily the search function and had never noticed that. or Delphi. Regular functions do not need a mode at all. This is a simpl

Re: [fpc-pascal] Documentation and posts suggestions [LONG]

2009-03-15 Thread Tomas Hajny
On 15 Mar 09, at 17:50, Michael Van Canneyt wrote: > On Sun, 15 Mar 2009, Francisco Reyes wrote: > > > Whether coming from Delphi or a totally new to pascal user there are a > > couple > > of changes we could made to the documentation to make it friendlier and to > > posts we make on the list. >

Re: [fpc-pascal] Documentation and posts suggestions [LONG]

2009-03-15 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Sun, 15 Mar 2009, Francisco Reyes wrote: > Whether coming from Delphi or a totally new to pascal user there are a couple > of changes we could made to the documentation to make it friendlier and to > posts we make on the list. > > I was thinking that including the unit and, if needed, the co

[fpc-pascal] Documentation and posts suggestions [LONG]

2009-03-15 Thread Francisco Reyes
Whether coming from Delphi or a totally new to pascal user there are a couple of changes we could made to the documentation to make it friendlier and to posts we make on the list. I was thinking that including the unit and, if needed, the compiler mode for functions in the documentation may be