Frank Heckenbach wrote:
Rick Engebretson wrote:
It is great to join the Mac developers with the Gnu developers.
But for this layperson, adapting Gnu to proprietary pascal seems backwards.
Well, we've been doing that since at least 1995 when Peter Gerwinski started adding Borland Pascal extensions ...
Further, pointers and pointers to pointers is abstract enough. Implicit and virtual goes over the top for all but a very few.
I suppose so. In the end they'll be happy if they can use their sources from other compilers unmodified as much as possiible. However, to get there, we have to discuss the difficult areas here, as we don't want to introduce several distinct and wholly incompatible modes.
Frank
Courtesy aside, ten variants of incompatible, incomplete pascal for the intel processor is absurd. That you can quote me on. Rick.