<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On Fri, Jun 7, 2019 at 3:26 PM Jonas Maebe <<a href="mailto:jonas@freepascal.org">jonas@freepascal.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">So if you add something in it that is in fact the same as a regular type definition, something is wrong.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>What exactly is "wrong" there, though? In a world where they both worked, doing this, as we've discussed:</div><div><br></div><div>procedure Proc(Param: ^TSomeType);</div><div><br></div><div>would be no different than doing this in any sense that really mattered:</div><div><br></div><div>type PSomeType = ^TSomeType;</div><div>procedure Proc(Param:
PSomeType);<br></div><div><br></div><div>apart from being somewhat more convenient.</div></div></div>