At 7:47 PM +0100 1/3/03, Frank Heckenbach wrote:
Prof A Olowofoyeku (The African Chief) wrote:
It comes in handy sometimes - but I don't believe that all Pascal compilers do it. One might miss having the feature in some situations, but I don't think it will be a disaster to dump it. It is also a good thing to have the option of stopping after the first error is encountered.
This would be a backend change. Peter suggested this to the GCC list some time ago, and it was rejected. (Or rather, he suggested something else, and someone turned turned his suggestion into this, and others flamed him for suggesting what he didn't and for a dozen of other things ...)-:
I am feeling a small bit of how Peter must have felt right now as a similar thing is happening. Some people, rather than trying to *understand* what I am driving at are presenting their own vision, pointing at their *own* vision, then saying "this is stupid" implying in the process this is what I suggested when in fact it *their* vision they are talking about... If they stopped at *thinking* (to themselves, of course!) "that is stupid"... therefore I perhaps don't really get what this guy is after... let's either look at this again or ask... I'd feel a hell of lot more welcome here.
Observing these replies, for the most part they quote the bits that are least relevant to my overall point... sigh :-( Maybe I'll just give up? Some of you are on a different, albeit related, tack. The irony for me is that I believe I can see where you're coming from and where your argument heads to which makes it even more frustrating to me. I can understand the confusion as the model you are presenting is related, but its *not* what I am thinking of!
(The full story is, of course, longer and more confusing, but I really don't want to start down that road...)
Implementing such an option would be trivial, but I guess as long as anyone still believes in GCC integration, you better try to convince the GCC people before we do it on our own. (Good luck!)-:
As I think I've already said, I'm not really fussed either way, it was just a loose thought. If its more work, let it slide; I'm not trying to make work for anyone ;-)
Grant