Re: Procedure types and An extended discussion of extensibility

From: [at]} <skulski{>
Date: Mon, 6 Dec 2004 17:52:39 -0500 (EST)

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"Rex Couture" <rex{([at]})nowhere.xy

> Now we are actually talking about discarding
> procedural parameters, and with it, Campbell's libraries.

I am hoping nobody is considering discarding Robert's libraries.
I consider his work monumental. For me his libraries are one of
the most convincing reasons to cling to Component Pascal.

Rex e-mail brings another point that I wanted to mention for a while.
Once BB is released with source, some good soul may consider improving
the language. We may soon be dealing with Extended CP, Enhanced CP,
CP++, and who knows what dialects. Hope this will not happen, but
from the spirit of recent discussions it looks to me some folks are
itching to improve what we have got now.

I hope OMS will erect provisions against changing CP before they
release the code.


> You've got this great language. Don't ruin it by trying to make it
> perfect. I hope I'm misunderstanding.

Amen.

Wojtek



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