Re: Cross-platform toolkit with a Cocoa backend
Re: Cross-platform toolkit with a Cocoa backend
- Subject: Re: Cross-platform toolkit with a Cocoa backend
- From: Sherm Pendley <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2007 13:06:47 -0400
On Jul 10, 2007, at 7:42 AM, Dr. Rolf Jansen wrote:
Rumours are that FreePascal can already access data and methods of
Cocoa objects and it seems that some are thinking loud about
enhancing the Pascal language specification for directly supporting
Objective-C constructs.
This, IMHO, is what would be needed to support Cocoa from FP. Pascal
method calls are static, bound at compile time. But the Cocoa world
revolves around dynamic messages that are resolved at run time -
Pascal would need a new message-sending syntax for the same reason
that C needed one.
Without extending the Pascal language to support dynamic messaging,
FP would be a far better match for a static toolkit like Carbon.
sherm--
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