2009/10/10 Jürgen Hestermann <juergen.hesterm...@gmx.de>: > > It is illogical that I am able to enumerate a pointer as if it was an array. > So the brackets do the dereferencing automatically. When I write X[1] it > assumes I meant X^[1]. To the user it behaves the same as if X was an array > instead of a pointer to an array. There is no difference in syntax which is > wrong IMO. It's not wonder that many users think it *is* an array.
I have to agree 100%. This is what through me off a few days ago as well. Plus I haven't used pointers and pointers to array structures in many years. But yes, the syntax is inconsistent with other syntax rules. -- Regards, - Graeme - _______________________________________________ fpGUI - a cross-platform Free Pascal GUI toolkit http://opensoft.homeip.net/fpgui/ _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
