[Lazarus] Request for student project ideas

[Thierry Coq]

This idea about an Oberon front-end is <very> interesting. I second that 
idea!

Thierry

Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote:
> Alexander Klenin schrieb:
>
>>> I would ask to implement modern delphi language features like:
>>> - anonymous methods
>>> - for-in loop
>>> - class constructors and destructors
>>> - support for strict private and strict protected sections
>>> - abstract and sealed classes
>>> - class const, class var, class type, class property
>>>
>>> Anyway, sooner or later delphi developers will use them more and 
>>> more and
>>> there will be a need to port that code to fpc.
>>
>> These are obvious candidates for me too, but although they are good 
>> projects,
>> they are rather hard -- for advanced students only.
>
> ACK, all these tasks required deep insight into the existing compiler
> code and data structures :-(
>
> Perhaps a somewhat simpler goal: add the new Attributes syntax to the
> parser, and check for possible implementations. I don't understand the
> hype and problems with these new attributes - is it really more than
> adding an Attributes:TStrings property to TObject?
>
> And another one: an Oberon front-end for FPC! {$mode OBERON}
> The language should be close enough to Pascal, so that the 
> implementation of the parser should not be a big deal. More difficult: 
> the interface to the existing compiler.
> There is much room for sub-projects, like garbage collection.
>
> The same for other languages (Java, C...). Wouldn't it be nice to have 
> a C front-end or {$MODE C} for opening the world of existing C code 
> (at least: header files) to FPC? See my ToPas project on SourceForge, 
> that implements an preprocessor and parser for C, written in Delphi 
> OPL - it could be extended by an interface to the FPC compiler.
>
> DoDi
>
>
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