On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 07:34, Daniël Mantione
wrote:
> This is a debate that has been held quite a few times :) If you look at
> typed consts from the point of view what a mathematical constant is, yes,
> it's completely absurd that you can write to them.
>From _mathematical_ point of view assign
Op Mon, 2 Mar 2009, schreef Alexander Klenin:
On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 03:16, Daniël Mantione
wrote:
Making typed constants writeable has been a disputed feature of the Borland
dialect, I agree with that, but fact of the matter is they are writeable and
thus cannot form a constant expression.
On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 03:16, Daniël Mantione
wrote:
> Making typed constants writeable has been a disputed feature of the Borland
> dialect, I agree with that, but fact of the matter is they are writeable and
> thus cannot form a constant expression. The fact that there exists a $J
> directive d
Op Mon, 2 Mar 2009, schreef Alexander Klenin:
Since issue http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=13256 was marked resolved,
I think this is quite reasonable to expect this to work.
The writeability of constants is IMNSHO just an ugly leftover from
Delphi history,
and should be disabled in _bot
On 01 Mar 2009, at 16:16, Jonas Maebe wrote:
On 01 Mar 2009, at 15:58, Alexander Klenin wrote:
On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 00:47, Jonas Maebe
wrote:
This depends on a mode switch. Use {$j-} to turn off the ability
to write to
typed constants. Maybe it's off by default in your version of
De
On 01 Mar 2009, at 15:58, Alexander Klenin wrote:
On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 00:47, Jonas Maebe
wrote:
This depends on a mode switch. Use {$j-} to turn off the ability to
write to
typed constants. Maybe it's off by default in your version of Delphi.
I know. I argued that it should be off by
On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 00:47, Jonas Maebe wrote:
>> Is rejected by Delphi, but compiled by FPC, which is a compatibility
>> bug in itself.
>
> This depends on a mode switch. Use {$j-} to turn off the ability to write to
> typed constants. Maybe it's off by default in your version of Delphi.
I know
On 01 Mar 2009, at 15:29, Alexander Klenin wrote:
I think this is quite reasonable to expect this to work.
The writeability of constants is IMNSHO just an ugly leftover from
Delphi history,
and should be disabled in _both_ delphi and objfpc modes:
{$IFDEF FPC}{$MODE DELPHI}{$ENDIF}
const x: in
Since issue http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=13256 was marked resolved,
I can not add comments, so I'd like to discuss it here.
Original report claimed that code
const c: SomeType = ;
var y: t = c;
begin
end.
Works for primitive types, but not the complex ones.
This was an error on my part
