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
next prev parent 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
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=1284125146.2190.51.camel@hamlet.localdomain \
--to=ssouth@simonsouth.ca \
--cc=emacs-devel@gnu.org \
--cc=monnier@iro.umontreal.ca \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
Code repositories for project(s) associated with this external index
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs/org-mode.git
This is an external index of several public inboxes,
see mirroring instructions on how to clone and mirror
all data and code used by this external index.