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Re: Delphi, Pascal, delphi-mode, pascal-mode, and free software


From: Stefan Monnier
Subject: Re: Delphi, Pascal, delphi-mode, pascal-mode, and free software
Date: Sat, 11 Sep 2010 11:56:29 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux)

>> 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



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