Rainer Stratmann wrote:
TP for DOS at
least supports a function result (as I remember) thus it is not Delphi only
as you mention.
It supports a function result, but it doesn't IIRC treat 'result' as a
special identifier. Delphi /has/ to have 'result', since otherwise
redefining standard operators would result in something like
operator := (wle: WordLE): word;
begin
{$ifdef ENDIAN_LITTLE }
Move(wle, result, SizeOf(:=))
..
which is clearly absurd :-)
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Mark Morgan Lloyd
markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk
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