Rick Engebretson wrote:
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.
Courtesy aside, ten variants of incompatible, incomplete pascal for the intel processor is absurd. That you can quote me on. Rick.
Well, the Borland dialects surely are for the Intel processor. Mac Pascal (which started this thread) obviously not. So, which others?
Anyway, we didn't write those other compilers. We try to be compatible to some of them, yes. And sometimes this might be the only way for users of those dialects to continue to use their codebase on another system.
Of course, I hope they will change some dirty dialect features to more clean/standard ones in the long run. But this cannot easily be done in a short time (as when Apple now decides to change architectures). I can understand those concerns, having gone through it myself (coming from BP).
Frank