On Thu, 03 Apr 1997 18:52:18 +0200, Sven Engelhardt wrote:

gpc really shall default to borland/turbo-pascal behaviour. You could implement reading ~/.gpcrc to change that. (For ease this could be done with a shell script) The cause ain't 'standard' performance, as thousands of dos-pascal-programs will be ported to linux.

I have to admit I'm in favor of defaulting to ISO standard behavior, but that is just my personal preference. I'm mainly concerned with the last comment... is it true that 'thousands of dos-pascal-programs' will be ported to linux'? I don't see a majority of the DOS-based TP programs being all that useful, or all that many TP programmers perceiving a need to port their software to gpc. Granted there was a lot of good software written with TP and which should be ported, but I think your numbers are over stated.

The comment also begs the question. is gpc's role to provide a facility for porting 10 year old DOS programs or for the creation of new programs? I would think primarily the latter and that decisions on gpc's defaults should serve that end.

-Kevin

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