[fpc-devel] Compiler bug?

[Marco van de Voort]

In our previous episode, Paul van Helden said:
> I have never used the function name instead of "Result", but of course 
> you can. Using () after a function to me seems so C-like and 
> un-Pascallish but it works.
> 
> But it is things like this that trip up people coming from Delphi, I 
> guess. Isn't this a potential improvement to the compiler though: scan 
> for overloaded functions before assuming that it is the result value 
> (like Delphi does)? (Or warn about overloaded functions without 
> parameters, similar to mode objfpc disallowing parameter names that are 
> the same as methods?)

For what Delphi does, there is $mode delphi. Mode objfpc has a significant
part of the combined FPC/Lazarus dialect written in it, which might actually
use the function result TP style.