Re: Popularity / SPLIT OFF -Re: Forum is so SLOOOW... Again!

[Thaddy]

Jamie is a good cook. ( of course I am better, since my father was a pro and served food to the Dutch National Team in 1988 at the Cats huis, got invited and my "little'' sister - now 66 next week- has all the authographs. Mind you: England 1, The Netherlands 3 and it could be worse.....)
We really need a /dev/null subject. Just to help the moderators... move....not to oblivion but to .....

[BrunoK]

One more TROLL thread initiated by and pursued by Joanna (like the one re some IRC stuff) :-)

This thread should be moderated / locked.

[Martin_fr]

Miss Jamie does that instead of showing some proof.

Martin it seems that you detected the condescending attitude of the post but there is more to it than that.

Miss in English refers to an unmarried woman or girl.
Jamie Is a man. Therefore he is insulting Jamie who is an adult male by addressing him as if he is a little girl. He is belittling Jamie.

Ok, I didn't see the trick question part in you enquiry... I assumed you were looking for something less bloody obvious than the gender mismatch. After all, what English skill does it require to know that "Miss" is a reference to woman. And the different between Miss and Misses is part of the most basic English education (At least in German schools, but I would guess that applies to other countries too).

EDIT: And, then of course the quoted statement can also be seen as offensive towards women (in general / all women). Though it seems clear from the context, that the author did not mean that, and likely wasn't even aware of that.

Would you see the following as positive or negative? "I don't half enjoy coding in Pascal"

negative because of the I don’t half enjoy part

Well, it was a trick question. For non British speakers you are dead on.

But in Britain: https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/english/features/the-english-we-speak/ep-170523

[Zvoni]

Would you see the following as positive or negative? "I don't half enjoy coding in Pascal"

negative because of the I don’t half enjoy part

Which proves that English (at least British english) is not your first language (neither is it mine).
Thing is: I looked it up https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/not-half

Translating that quote: I enjoy coding in pascal very much

[Thaddy]

One more TROLL thread initiated by and pursued by Joanna (like the one re some IRC stuff) :-)

This thread should be moderated / locked.

Of course not. It should be moved. You are one of the incapables btw. You'd better learn to add compilable examples. Joanna did....

[BrunoK]

One more TROLL thread initiated by and pursued by Joanna (like the one re some IRC stuff) :-)

Of course not. It should be moved. You are one of the incapables btw. You'd better learn to add compilable examples. Joanna did....

Please, link to one of Joanna's compilable example.

And of course if possible, one of yours (Unedited as you are very used to do with too many contributions that are frequently useless, insulting to beginners  and get caught with your hand in the honey pot.).

Remind yourself that links to Internet pages must be enclosed with 'Insert HyperLink' that you can reach in this Post reply window.

That' perhaps to much asking for. :-) ;-)

[Martin_fr]

OK, please everyone: Don't slide towards personal insult.

[Thaddy]

I won't. Unless it is warranted.

[Thaddy]

BrunoK: shut up. You are wrong and you know it. The rest of us are having a perfectly nice conversation.
Back on topic, plz.

[VisualLab]

Handoko I’ve heard that just stop oil is funded by the oil industry

How could the oil lobby benefit from this? Because I don't see any benefits here. By "feeding" pseudo-ecological trolls, oil companies would only harm themselves.

[Martin_fr]

Splitted the topic. The splitt off is still a mix....

Given there are messages that refer to both topics, it's just a last resort, with more side effects than actual "cure".

[440bx]

I think splitting it off was a good idea.

Now that it's its own thread it can eventually be deleted (which I personally believe would be a good thing... this thread has little, if any, information of value.)

[BrunoK]

BrunoK: shut up. You are wrong and you know it. The rest of us are having a perfectly nice conversation.
Back on topic, plz.

Nonsense, you are not able to point to anything of yours that would be compilable.

If you can show any compilable code of your production in the last 2 years, I might go on my web knees with apology.

[cdbc]

Hi
Here's one of several demos on my harddrive, from Thaddy:

Code: Pascal  [Select][+][-]

1. program function_reference;
2. {$mode objfpc}{$H+}
3. //{$mode delphi}
4. {$ModeSwitch anonymousfunctions}
5. {$ModeSwitch functionreferences}
6. {$Optimization NOUSELOADMODIFYSTORE}
7. type
8.  
9. { tfoo }
10.  
11.  tr=record
12.    x,y:integer;
13.  end;
14.  
15.  tf=reference to procedure(i:tr);
16.  
17.  tfoo=class
18.   procedure repe(f:tf);
19. end;
20.  
21. { tfoo }
22.  
23. procedure tfoo.repe(f: tf);
24. var
25.   r: tr;
26.   i: Integer;
27. begin
28.   for i:=1 to 5 do begin
29.     r.x:=i;
30.     f(r)
31.   end;
32. end;
33.  
34. procedure test;
35. var
36.   foo: tfoo;
37.   c: Integer;
38. begin
39.   foo:=tfoo.create;
40.   c:=0;
41.   { note: no semicolon after function signature & no semicolon after last end }
42.   foo.repe(procedure (i:tr) begin
43.     c:=c+i.x;
44.     writeln(i.x);
45.   end);
46.    writeln('sum ',c);
47.   foo.free;
48. end;
49. { fpt.sh calls trunk compiler from february 2024
50.   compiled with "fpt.sh function_reference" it produces: 1,2,3,4,5 sum = 15
51.   compiled with "fpt.sh -O3 function_reference" it produces: 1,2,3,4,5 sum = 0
52.   compiled with "fpt.sh -O4 function_reference" it produces: 1,2,3,4,5 sum = 0
53.   that is a bug!
54.   edit:
55.   - solution is to add {$Optimization NOUSELOADMODIFYSTORE} at the top of the unit.
56. }
57. begin
58.   test;
59. end.
60.  

Sorry BrunoK, but I tend to agree with Thaddy.
Regards Benny

[BrunoK]

Sorry BrunoK, but I tend to agree with Thaddy.
Regards Benny

Acknowledged on my WEB knees. It compiles and run, and searching around that subject I found a few others that do actually compile and run (with FPC trunk).

It would have been easy for Grumpy to just put a link to one of his compilable examples. In his interventions, half have no meaning or only a little, some, limited, portions of his participation make sense the rest being insults and ramblings about his past and things that are not like he expose, with certainty, them being.