From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Simon South <ssouth@simonsouth.ca>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Delphi, Pascal, delphi-mode, pascal-mode, and free software
Date: Sat, 11 Sep 2010 11:56:29 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvocc46224.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1284125146.2190.51.camel@hamlet.localdomain> (Simon South's message of "Fri, 10 Sep 2010 09:25:46 -0400")
>> 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?
Sounds good. Of course, we'd need to rename vars and functions inside
(and add a few defalias/defvaralias to maintain some amount of backward
compatibility, of course) and "object-pascal-" sounds like too long
a prefix. How 'bout "opascal-"?
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-09-11 9:56 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
2010-09-11 9:56 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
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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