<p>Am 29.05.2017 10:26 schrieb "Ryan Joseph" <<a href="mailto:ryan@thealchemistguild.com">ryan@thealchemistguild.com</a>>:<br>
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> > On May 29, 2017, at 1:01 PM, Sven Barth via fpc-pascal <<a href="mailto:fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org">fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org</a>> wrote:<br>
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> > If anything like this would be implemented, then the already existing syntax (for variant dispatch calls) would be used which uses ":=".<br>
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> What are variant dispatch calls? Maybe something from Delphi I’m not familiar with.</p>
<p>It's usually used in the context of OLE automation though one could also use this with independently of OLE/COM.<br>
For an example see here:<br>
<a href="https://www.freepascal.org/~michael/articles/word/word.pdf">https://www.freepascal.org/~michael/articles/word/word.pdf</a></p>
<p>> That’s too bad, a single colon matches the declaration better and looks nice.</p>
<p>An assignment is the logical choice cause you're assigning a value to a parameter. A colon is used for a declaration, which is a completely different kind of "operation".</p>
<p>Regards,<br>
Sven</p>