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Marco van de Voort wrote on Mon, 12 Jul 2010:
> In our previous episode, Hans-Peter Diettrich said:
>>
>> Then we could start by immediately flagging all uses of "in" as
>> deprecated, unless e.g. TP7 or Delphi mode is selected. When the users
>> can demonstrate that they still need such a feature, we could think
>> again about other (more compatible) solutions for not yet covered
>> special cases, before dropping it from the FPC syntax.
>
> See http://www.stack.nl/~marcov/porting.pdf paragraph 7 ("avoid paths...")
>
> I originally wrote that in 2003-2004.
>
> Even for portability purposes it often doesn't work, since usually the build
> systems and files for FPC/Lazarus and Delphi differ anyway (and you noticed
> the working dir difference)
The working dir difference is a Lazarus difference, not an FPC
difference. Afaict, that feature works identically in FPC and in Delphi.
Furthermore, at least two of "the users" have already posted in this
thread saying that they use this functionality (both in FPC and in
Delphi). Therefore I don't think it is a good idea to remove or change
it.
If different functionality is desired, I think it's better to add a
different construct rather than using the same construct but with a
different meaning.
When checking, I found that it is used for all files in UltraStar Deluxe. I was not aware that this part of the code is problematic also have no idea about the actual reason. Maybe relates to compiling with Delphi. In any case I would definitely hate to have the code broken. Nevertheless, I will raise the topic.
P.S. This will probably end up in the wrong thread, because I answer to the dictionary. At least it did in the past. Any hints?
Michael