On 12 Jun 2010, at 11:00, Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
>>> TestFunction := ActualParameter ( ) ; { compiles and runs o.k. }
>>>
>>
> [MVC:] The addition of () actually calls the function.
>
>>> TestFunction := ActualParameter ; { gives "incompatible type" error,
>>> but ... }
>
> [MVC:] Here you try to assign the ActualParameter (a function pointer) to the
> result (an integer). This of course gives a type error.
>
>>> TestFunction := NamedFunction ; { ... compiles and runs o.k. }
> [MVC:] This is simply a regular function call.
Sorry, but this simply wrong. The LRG (page 95) does not require an "actual
parameter list" for a syntactically correct function call.
The call should be excecuted except in one case (LRG page 96) "... the compiler
will not execute the function call ... when assigning a value to a procedural
type variable". This is clearly not such a case.
Roger Bailey
P.S. The LRG has a minor error on page 121: "out parameter" appears twice as an
alternative for "parameter declararion"
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