[Lazarus] Please define "delphi compatibility"

[Joost van der Sluis]

On Sun, 2012-10-14 at 13:11 +0200, michael.vancanneyt at wisa.be wrote:
> 
> On Sun, 14 Oct 2012, Joost van der Sluis wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, 2012-10-11 at 11:55 +0200, Sven Barth wrote:
> >> Am 10.10.2012 18:42, schrieb Florian Klämpfl:
> >>> Am 10.10.2012 16:11, schrieb Bart:
> >> I would even go into the opposite direction and adjust Delphi's
> >> attribute syntax:
> >
> >> to a more Pascal like:
> >>
> >> === hypothetical example ===
> >>
> >> type
> >>    TSomeClass = class
> >>      property SomeProperty {...} attributes [Some3rdAttribute('a', 'b')];
> >>    end attributes [SomeAttribute(1, 2, 3), SomeOtherAttribute];
> >>
> >> === hypothetical example ===
> >
> > I don't know if you participated in the discussion about this feature
> > before I started the first implementation. But we discussed this then. I
> > decided not to do it, for the simple reason that I don't need it since
> > I'm doing this for an application that has to be compiled by both Delphi
> > and fpc. And as I was the one who implemented it, I had to decide.
> >
> > But feel free to add this syntax to objfpc mode. This can be done on the
> > parser level only. And it's simpler then the 'Delphi' syntax as it does
> > not need to remember the attribute until it parses the next statement.
> > (Which is off course why the Delphi-class-attributes-syntax is not a
> > Pascal syntax at all)
> >
> >> And if Joost isn't fast enough with his attributes branch I might do
> >> that indeed ;P
> >
> > In fact that branch works completely, as far as I know. I have to add
> > some more tests, and maybe some checks here and there. But the
> > attributes do work.
> 
> What stops you from merging this to trunk ?

The tests. I want to add those first. I'll do this next week.

Joost.