Giuliano Colla wrote:
Micha Nelissen ha scritto:
Giuliano Colla wrote:
With "absolute" you need a) to declare an extra type (PByte, or
"Declaring an extra type" is one of those things that make Pascal what
it is; declaring before use.
You mean that declaring "twice" is smarter than declaring just once?
You're actively trying to deceive me here? Nothing is declared "twice"
as in "two times", but the declaration is split in two pieces. Btw, 9
times out of 10 the type declaration is reused multiple times so in the
end it saves typing.
one for the typed pointer itself. The Pascal type is visible in the
pointer type declaration, and not in the pointer declaration (which is
in a different section, var vs. type, which in a large program can be
That's why names were invented in programming languages. Names can add
meaning to types. It can make the reader see structure instead of chaos.
It would be more consistent with the rest of the language, but what I
suggest is to push consistency on the opposite direction.
The opposite direction is the wrong direction.
Micha
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