On 3/25/2011 7:18, Levente Uzonyi wrote:
On Fri, 25 Mar 2011, Andreas Raab wrote:
On 3/24/2011 19:35, Levente Uzonyi wrote:
Isn't it the best time to migrate the syntax of FFI calls to Pragmas? I know it takes some time to implement the pragma support, but IIRC Lukas did that a few years ago, so dusting it off and adding support for threaded calls (which I didn't see yet) shouldn't be that hard.
Sorry, but that's a decidedly bad idea. It breaks each and every use of the FFI out there. The FFI syntax and support is what it is, so please leave it alone. If you want to implement something different, then implement something different and do it in a form that doesn't conflict with the FFI so that both can live side by side.
That's the idea: "Both formats could be supported for a while, then we could leave the current format behind and simplify the parsers/compilers, etc."
Even tools can be built to convert from one syntax to the other.
Glad to hear it. I hate the attitude that the only way to make progress is to break all code in existence. It's a lame and lazy attitude, unworthy of engineers who understand what they're doing.
Cheers, - Andreas
Levente
Cheers,
- Andreas
Both formats could be supported for a while, then we could leave the current format behind and simplify the parsers/compilers, etc.
Levente