[fpc-pascal] Initializing Records Automatically

[ik]

Since when are you using fillchar on a string in Pascal ? that's a C approach.

BTW Most Pascal's string functions will stop on the first #0 they
encounter, at least the Delphi's tool that I remember.

I think he misses the entire point in his blog.

Ido

On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 1:20 PM, L <L at z505.com> wrote:
> http://stanleyxu2005.blogspot.com/2008/01/potential-memory-leak-by-initializing.html
>
>  Interesting..
>
>  So with
>
>  procedure InitRecord(out R; SizeOfRecord: Integer);
>  begin
>   FillChar(R, SizeOfRecord, #0);
>  end;
>
>  Even if it has dynamic array, ansistrings, shortstrings, integers,
>
>  I assume it is okay to initialize it this way (assumptions are bad).
>
>  The problem: initializing records with automated types by going through
>  each and every field is error prone because if you expand the record
>  later on with more fields, you might forget to update your custom init
>  procedure..
>
>  And a question: does old borland style "object" initialize anything as
>  classes do? Stack based ones? heap ones?
>
>  Interesting pondering: what would be nicee is an auto initialized record:
>
>  procedure example;
>  var something: somerec autoinit;
>  begin
>  end;
>
>  Many times I find myself initializing stuff tediously and error prone
>  when you do it a human way without automation.
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