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 can't speak for Waldek, of course. ATM, he's busy with the gcc-4.x port and backend fixes. Do you plan to work in any of the above areas soon (say, this year), Waldek?
Frank