[fpc-pascal] Name of a var

[John Lee]

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>> Yes, there are many features not everybody needs. Yet they have to be
> chosen by some means (language design) and yet there will always be
> disagreement.
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> No, do the minimum


> But remember each feature has a cost. Not only what it adds to your app
> (which it may well be worth), but also what it adds to the compiler: Now
> and in future maintenance.



> And are you sure this feature is really that simple? Now and in all future?
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> Now it may just be an: check (for existence as var) and quote the literal
> identifier. But soon you or someone wants to pass a pointer to a variable,
> and that will raise the cost a lot.
>
> KISS principle - at present it just cannot be done w/o messing with debug,
so just check, & quote the literal val as you suggestl Minimal compiler
cost?
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