FPC PasCocoa

todo:

create a wiki page documenting how the syntax should look, and mentioning any kind of special things to take into account, such as a) how to declare a constant NSString/CFString in Pascal (the @"somestring" from Objective-C) b) ideas on how to deal with categories. As Gale Paeper mentioned in a mail a couple of years ago on this list:

Since class categories and protocol usages are only selectively defined and used based on the application's use of particular Cocoa frameworks, one needs to be able to restrict the declarations the compiler sees to only those declarations applicable to used frameworks. If one doesn't have a means to restrict the seen declarations, one will need to provide in some form implementing methods for every single protocol and category methods that exits in the complete Cocoa framework, I think, whether one needs to or not. (Without restricted declaration views, I also think you'll be building a class runtime support data structures which will have erroneous results in runtime test for class protocol and category support tests.) In order to provide restricted declaration views, one needs to be able to extend class type category and protocol method declarations and implementations in units other than the unit containing the base declaration for a class.

Since an all inclusive MacOSAll type of unit won't provide restricted declaration views, I think looking into providing FPC support for non-scoping uses clauses with uses propagation to support umbrella framework style units would be worthwhile. If one doesn't have uses propagation support and one needs restricted declaration views, the uses clause unit list can get pretty long. While there's nothing inherently wrong with long unit lists in uses clauses, it is quite a hassle that quite a few folks don't want to have to deal with.

c) probably many more things I'm currently not thinking of