On Sat, Jul 9, 2011 at 12:40 PM, Thaddy <tha...@thaddy.com> wrote: > Isn't it time to cut this discussion short? const means do not modify! full > stop! whatever by reference or value. The rest is bovine extrement.
Not so fast. As Hans-Peter Diettrich said: "Pascal "const" parameters are optimization hints in the first place, the write protection of parameters is a less important item instead". Is very important, for optimizations, we know if the parameter is passed by reference or value... don't you think? Marcos Douglas _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
