[fpc-pascal] Printing of Pointer Type

[Mattias Gaertner]

On Thu, 17 Jul 2008 10:45:22 +0200
"Vinzent Höfler" <JeLlyFish.software at gmx.net> wrote:

> leledumbo <leledumbo_cool at yahoo.co.id>
> > 
> > Jonas Maebe-2 wrote:
> > > 
> > > Because there are easy ways around it (as you mention) and the
> > > work to implement and maintain this would probably outweigh the
> > > usefulness.
> > > 
> > Yes, it's easy but uncomfortable and needs more typing.
> 
> Well, sure, but printing pointer values in most cases is a pure
> debugging aid and nothing really useful.

Well. Since the biggest time of programming is spent on debugging I
guess, there is more need for a PtrToStr than for FloatToStr.

lcl users can simply use dbgs().

Mattias