Am 29.01.2016 12:26 schrieb "Marco van de Voort" <[email protected]>: > > In our previous episode, Sven Barth said: > > The fp prefixes for the Posix functions are there to avoid confusion with > > the native Pascal functionality (e.g. mkdir) and for consistency all these > > functions have the prefix. > > (And most importantly "read", "write" and "close". Worse, read and write > are not even functions but intrinsics, so they are available everywhere. And > they are not defined as POSIX functions, but "loosely modelled after POSIX" > :-))
Intrinsics are handled as belonging to the System unit. You can write System.Writeln for example and it will work (which is why the IfThen() intrinsic wouldn't be a problem in that regard) Regards, Sven
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