Something that I always thought very nice on other languages is the possible of adding variables inside the codes, I'm very happy using the FPC but came on my mind, FPC is always getting better and better (I first saw it like 2 years ago and I am impressed with its progress), would it on the future be possible? Declaring variables after the begin?

/*Just random thoughts*/

Thank you,
Bizz

This was discussed few times here. Later ppl tired from the endless discussions and summarised their ideas on this page: http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Modernised_Pascal

Best regards,
Paul Ishenin

I'm pretty sure that this abomination will be vetoed.

Michael.

This was discussed few times here. Later ppl tired from the endless discussions and summarised their ideas on this page: http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Modernised_Pascal

Nice!
For me, If I can say is most interested:

1. try ... except ... finally ... end;
2. C style IIF operator: l ? true : false;
3. C style comments: /* ... */ (I have never understood why in Pascal
was used (* ... *) )

-Laco.

LacaK wrote

3. C style comments: /* ... */ (I have never understood why in Pascal was used (* ... *) )

Because they are much more clear and easy to understand (both for compiler and for reader). C comments are very-very-very ugly. For example, you can write things like: a = b/*c; which fails if c is pointer to something.

In our previous episode, LacaK said:

3. C style comments: /* ... */ (I have never understood why in Pascal was used (* ... *) )

You probably have to formulate that the other way around. Pascal is older.

3. C style comments: /* ... */ (I have never understood why in Pascal was used (* ... *) )

Pascal has several digraphs:
(* = {
*) = }
(. = [
.) = ]

These reflect the missing or hard to access keycodes on non-English keyboards. The C language is not so user friendly :-(

DoDi

I must say, that I have not yet known about the alternatives for the squared brackets. O.o

One never stops learning...

(and they are even documented :D )

Regards,
Sven