From: Joseph Myers <joseph@codesourcery.com>
To: "Martin Liška" <mliska@suse.cz>
Cc: <gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Remove Pascal-related entries in code and comments.
Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2018 16:49:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.21.1809211644250.8467@digraph.polyomino.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <39d26bc1-c836-15b3-9443-60f8bb47ad12@suse.cz>
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On Fri, 21 Sep 2018, Martin Liška wrote:
> Hi.
>
> This is removal of some Pascal-related comments.
There are two different kinds of comments being removed here. There are
comments relating to GNU Pascal, which has long been a dead project, so
removing those seems reasonable. But there are also comments /
documentation references referring to Pascal as a language that has some
feature, rather than to the GNU Pascal implementation, and it's much less
clear those should be removed. And where you change "As in Algol and
Pascal, lexical scoping of functions.", which is one of the latter kind,
I'd think Algol is likely to be more obscure than Pascal to readers of the
manual, so if it changes at all it should probably be to refer to more
modern examples of languages with nested functions that form closures.
--
Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-09-21 16:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-09-21 10:12 Martin Liška
2018-09-21 16:49 ` Joseph Myers [this message]
2018-09-24 11:29 ` Martin Liška
2018-09-24 18:28 ` Jeff Law
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