[fpc-other] Re: [fpc-pascal] Illogical automatic dereferencing

2009-10-13 Thread Vinzent Höfler
Reimar Grabowski reimg...@web.de: doing. The great thing about Pascal is that you get a mostly clean language with all the power of C/C++. Some parts are not as clean or strict as some people like, but I'd rather have some 'not-so-clean' implementation than a loss in speed or versatility. If

Re: [fpc-other] Re: [fpc-pascal] Illogical automatic dereferencing

2009-10-13 Thread Jonas Maebe
Florian Klaempfl wrote on Tue, 13 Oct 2009: Jonas Maebe schrieb: Only allowing it for pchar/pwidechar, I guess. Then another person pops up and asks why it is allowed only for pchar/pwidechar being illogical because this is not orthogonal. Undoubtedly. I guess the best solution is to

Re: [fpc-other] Re: [fpc-pascal] Illogical automatic dereferencing

2009-10-13 Thread Marco van de Voort
In our previous episode, Jonas Maebe said: Then another person pops up and asks why it is allowed only for pchar/pwidechar being illogical because this is not orthogonal. Undoubtedly. I guess the best solution is to have that Delphi switch so everyone can set the behaviour he/she

Re: [fpc-other] Re: [fpc-pascal] Illogical automatic dereferencing

2009-10-13 Thread Vinzent Höfler
Even in Java (which does have pointer data types, yet still it has references) The last part was meant to read 'yet calls it reference (type)s'. -- Jetzt kostenlos herunterladen: Internet Explorer 8 und Mozilla Firefox 3.5 - sicherer, schneller und einfacher!