[Lazarus] Delphi editor clone

[Vincent Snijders]

Hans-Peter Diettrich schreef:
> Martin schrieb:
> 
>> All fine and good. But it doesn't help, unless you convince the fpc 
>> developers.
> 
> Right :-(
> 

Little chance, because they made this change on purpose:
http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/User_Changes_2.4.0#Treating_direct-mapped_properties_as_regular_fields

>> Eventually the new Version of FPC will be used, and eventually all 
>> code has to be able to be compiled with it....
> 
> I have several suggestions:
> 
> - apply the new rules only in $mode Delphi

The reason for the change was better following the object pascal language: the use 
of properties should not depend on the way they are implemented. This is not a 
Delphi only choice.

> - use an (global) switch to treat Inc/Dec as macros or operators
> - introduce new Incr/Decr macros, to reduce required editing of legacy code
> 
> 
> I'll have to get a SVN version of fpc, before I can start fixing my code...
> And if so, I only will replace Inc/Dec by my added Incr/Decr macros. You 
> can do so yourself, already. Feel free to update my code accordingly :-)
> 

You need to update your compiler version anyway, if you want to start implementing 
macros with parameters. ;-)

Vincent