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   Marco van de Voort to Detlef Meyer-Eltz   
   Re: Delphi parser from TextTransformer g   
   27 Aug 09 17:54:04   
   
   From: marcov@stack.nl   
      
   On 2009-08-23, Detlef Meyer-Eltz  wrote:   
   > The reason is, that there are some special difficulties with the   
   > Delphi grammar:   
   >   
   > - there is no standard specification of this proprietary language. The   
   > specification has to be concluded from the Delphi help files. So   
   > indeed, the completeness of the grammar cannot be proved. The actual   
   > project can parse the complete VCL which accompanies the CBuilder 6   
   > and it was tested at more than 2000 files of my installed Delphi   
   > components.   
      
   You could try to run Free Pascal's testsuite. Many of the tests originate in   
   Delphi incompability bugreports.   
      
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