Re: The Object Pascal Language standard

"marc hoffman" <foo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:48785b00@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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*Those* are not .NET-specific, in the sense that similar functionality, with the same syntax, could not be provided by an unmanaged compiler and its runtime, such as Delphi.

Definitely, and even having said that, who in the world is to stop *anybody* to provide support for something like LINQ or async methods or whatever?

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LINQ is probably one of the "more" .NET-tied features of Oxygene, but even it is not really limited to managed code, from a conceptual point of view. A LINQ-like framework and language syntax could be provided by an unmanaged Pascal language (with substantial RTL support being required, that already exists "for freee" on .NET, yes).

Indeed.

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matter of fact, as i look over our entire list of language features, the only language feature that would not be portable to unmanaged code, really is the concept of "unsafe code" (since all unmanaged code falls into that category, of being unverifiable, already).

LOL!

Regards,
Alessandro

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