[Lazarus] Request for student project ideas

[Marco van de Voort]

On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 11:28:57PM +0200, Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote:
> Graeme Geldenhuys schrieb:
> 
> > The pascal language generally has modifiers at the end of a declaration.
> 
> Right, and the syntax sucks :-(
> (all the semicolons should be removed from the modifiers, with a single 
> semicolon terminating a declaration)

IMHO since some modifiers can have parameters, that is yet another kludge.

GPC uses [modifier1 arg1,modifier2] iirc, which is better.
 
> > Now Object Pascal parsers and compilers must all be modified to look for
> > modifiers infront and after a declaration.  At is purely C# syntax, not
> > Object Pascal syntax!  Hasn't CodeGear learnt there lesson with .NET yet??
> 
> IMO they have learned that copy&paste is an essential RAD method. In so 
> far I understand that copying C# declarations into OPL source code 
> simplifies interfacing with the rest of the world.

I can't really imagine a realworld scenario here.