Vincent Snijders wrote: > > Backwards compatibility with turbo pascal, which lacked initialized > variables and writable constants were the alternative.
Thanks Vincent. The Kylix 3 help mentioned early versions of Delphi and Borland Pascal, which made me think that it must have been some limitation in the older compilers. Thanks for confirming this. Regards, - Graeme - _______________________________________________________ fpGUI - a cross-platform GUI toolkit using Free Pascal http://opensoft.homeip.net/fpgui/ _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
