[Estimated Reading Time: 4 minutes] Yesterday I posted about an issue with type checking in Delphi (and other Pascal) compilers. As mentioned in that post, range checking is fundamentally flawed as a supposed solution to the problem for reasons that are explored further in this post.
[Estimated Reading Time: 3 minutes] A brief post on a long standing omission in type checking in Pascal and the limitations of Range Checking as applied to the problem.
[Estimated Reading Time: 3 minutes] I recently mentioned that RemObjects have placed their OS X native IDE – a.k.a. Fire – into public beta. I haven’t been using it myself (yet) but have been following developments in the RemObjects Talk forums with interest, and a new feature in the Elements 8.0 compiler (also part of the Fire beta) caught my eye this week.
[Estimated Reading Time: 5 minutes] This is another one of those posts that has a bit of a double meaning in the same title. First, there is the matter of a useful hint/warning that I think could be emitted by a Pascal compiler. The other is what I have been up to in recent months that I have been so busy that I wasn’t posting much (i.e. at all) ! First the more relevant point to this blog: When you say nothing at all, in Pascal
[Estimated Reading Time: 4 minutes] Francois Piette recently posted a solution to obtaining the screen position of a menu item involving using a “hacker” class. There is however a safer, more direct mechanism which I hope Francois won’t mind me sharing and a far less safe related hacking technique that his post brought to mind.
[Estimated Reading Time: 9 minutes] I’ve mentioned some of the cool stuff in the Oxygene language in various posts and thought it would be a good idea to list them again, along with some others that I’ve not previously mentioned.
[Estimated Reading Time: 2 minutes] I closed my previous post with an observation that the code for initialising an iOS user interface programmatically, as translated from equivalent Objective-C, contained a potential gotcha. I now have a little more time to expand on that.
[Estimated Reading Time: 4 minutes] The ever evolving DWScript project continues to advance the Pascal language at an impressive pace. Just today it was announced that this scripting version of Pascal now has “namespace” support.
[Estimated Reading Time: 2 minutes] Continuing the theme of recent – and upcoming – posts about new (and not so new) syntax in modern (and not so modern) variations on the Pascal language, I just have to comment on what I regard as yet another stunningly good job that the guys at RemObjects have done in their “Nougat” flavoured Oxygene. Specifically in relation to how they have implemented the named method parts syntax in Objective-C.
[Estimated Reading Time: 2 minutes] I have posted before about new language features introduced in a way that does not adhere to the (admittedly quite notional) “Spirit of Delphi”. It’s time for another one, this time inspired by a post by Paul Klink of the ADUG.
