On 9 Jun 2005 at 14:39, Frank Heckenbach wrote:
Prof A Olowofoyeku (The African Chief) wrote:
Most of these changes are implicit in Delphi-style "Classes", which I believe, are on the GPC "to do" list. Once GPC gets the "Class" type, there will be no need to do any of these. So I guess what you are pushing for is a quick implementation of Classes. I am not sure myself that this would be a trivial undertaking. However, I'll leave Frank and Waldek to speak to that point.
Certainly not trivial, and in addition, all of Mac, Delphi and OOE objects/classes are slightly different.
Well, my next bigger changes in GPC according to my plans were going to be the preprocessor and then short strings, but perhaps I should change my priorities now. I suppose the preprocessor is still urgent, as it makes GPC more or less difficult to use (depending on the platform) with gcc-3.3.x and higher. But as I understand it, you have work-arounds for short strings, so perhaps classes are more urgent then.
I would think that Classes are more urgent. This is the last major hurdle to full Delphi compatibility. The absence of short strings can be worked around - but the absence of Classes cannot.
Best regards, The Chief -------- Prof. Abimbola A. Olowofoyeku (The African Chief) web: http://www.greatchief.plus.com/