Am 10.06.2019 um 00:28 schrieb Ben Grasset: > On Sun, Jun 9, 2019 at 11:26 AM Florian Klämpfl <flor...@freepascal.org > <mailto:flor...@freepascal.org>> wrote: > > Yes, but this has *nothing* to do with the output of -vp. Nothing. > > > My point with that was more just getting at "clearly typed pointer aliases > are not actually that big of a deal > internally for FPC", as in it doesn't really matter if it *technically* > declares a new type.
A lot is not a big deal - even not supporting localized keywords - but we don't do it for good reasons. > > Again, literally nobody in this entire message chain has stated any actual > reason why exactly they think it would be > specifically *bad* to have `^Type` in method parameters. > I am pretty sure (I do not read completely anymore those lengthy "I have a great idea how to improve productivity" threads) somebody did explain you that this is not orthogonal as other types cannot be declared this way. _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
