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From: Simon South <ssouth@simonsouth.ca>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Delphi, Pascal, delphi-mode, pascal-mode, and free software
Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2010 09:25:46 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1284125146.2190.51.camel@hamlet.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwv1v9193d4.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org>

On Fri, 2010-09-10 at 14:48 +0200, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> From the above I gather than the language part of Delphi is basically
> the same as Free Pascal, so maybe we could rename it free-pascal.el?

Well, it's only one of several dialects Free Pascal understands (and not
the default).  The actual name of the language is Object Pascal, so how
about object-pascal.el?  

> OK.  Indeed from looking at them there didn't seem to be much shared
> ancestry.  Do you happen to know what major dialect of Pascal is
> supported by pascal-mode?

No... I'd assume it's standard Pascal (ISO 7185) but I don't know for
sure.  (Actually, if it isn't, it probably should be.)

> Merging seems difficult, indeed.  But at least from what you say, it
> seems like it would be desirable to try and shape future changes so as
> to reduce the differences rather than increase them.

Agreed!

-- 
Simon South
ssouth@simonsouth.ca




  reply	other threads:[~2010-09-10 13:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-08-12 16:03 Delphi, Pascal, delphi-mode, pascal-mode, and free software Stefan Monnier
2010-09-10 11:05 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-09-10 11:36   ` Simon South
2010-09-10 12:48     ` Stefan Monnier
2010-09-10 13:25       ` Simon South [this message]
2010-09-11  9:56         ` Stefan Monnier
2010-09-13 10:50           ` Simon South
2010-09-11  5:30       ` Richard Stallman
2010-09-11  9:28         ` Simon South
2010-09-11 10:52           ` Stefan Monnier
2010-09-13 11:01             ` Simon South
2010-09-13 15:49               ` Stefan Monnier

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