Backporting the new language features in Delphi Rio

[Johan Bontes 11]

A while ago I did some development using DelphiAST. 

I've since added a symbol table and a writer that writes out Delphi code.

This allows me to do something really cool: read in Delphi(like) code and output transformed code.

 

One of the things this allows is new operators like

 

+=, /= etc.

 

It also allows for the new

 

for var i: integer:= 0 to 10 do ...

syntax to be ported. I simply read in the new syntax and output the old, taking care to resolve any name clashes.

Obviously this also requires me to rewrite the syntax highlighter, which I have not done so far, because this is a bit harder, still I think it would make

an interesting project and help with the adaptation of the new language features.

 

Is there documentation regarding the new language features in Rio? I cannot seem to find more than a few still shots from David's presentation?

[Sherlock 663]

It's not out yet, and a thorough analysis or documentation would be subject to an NDA. Right now patience is a virtue.

[Markus Kinzler 174]

Rio isn't officially released. Even no release date.