Delphi compatibility

18 Nov 2002

      Hi all

Newer versions of Delphi (IIRC, from v4.0 onwards) permit a somewhat 
C-like procedure/function call - e.g., if you have these routines:
	function foo : integer;
	procedure bar;

You can call them like this;
	i := foo; // GPC expects this
	bar; // -- ditto --

	j := foo (); // Delphi accepts, but GPC doesn't
	bar(); // -- ditto --

I thing that it would be nice if GPC could support the addition of 
the brackets, but there may well be strong reasons for not doing so 
(for one, it is un-Pascalish). I also do not know whether it would be 
easy or difficult to implement. I fully appreciate that there are 
many other things that are far greater priorities - but if it could 
be done easily then should it? I find that many Delphi programmers 
are increasingly doing this (probably those who came from a C/C++ 
background) and so it gets a bit cumbersome to deal with them when 
trying to port free Delphi code to GPC.

Any comments?

Best regards, 
   The Chief
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Prof. Abimbola Olowofoyeku (The African Chief)
Web: http://www.bigfoot.com/~african_chief/

Prof. A Olowofoyeku (The African Chief)

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