<div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote" dir="auto"><div dir="ltr">Maciej Izak <<a href="mailto:hnb.code@gmail.com">hnb.code@gmail.com</a>> schrieb am So., 20. Mai 2018, 21:49:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">Why you decide to <span style="font-size:large">prohibit static array constants inside dynamic array constants for Delphi modes in r39045? I do not understand this decision. It is some punishment for using Delphi mode? -,- IMO bad decision.</span></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I prohibited it because Delphi does not support it correctly and I don't know whether they'd use the usual "(...)"-syntax for the static arrays or switch to the dynamic array one. To avoid potential backwards compatibility problems I decided to simply disallow it. And to be fair: how often do you declare dynamic arrays that consist of static arrays? </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote" dir="auto"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div style="text-align:start;text-indent:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">For the consequence the following code</div></div><div style="text-align:start;text-indent:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><br></div><div style="text-align:start;text-indent:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">

<div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">var</div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">  f: array of TSomeRec = [(a: 10; b: ['1', '2']), (a: 20; b: ['6'])];</div>

<br></div><div style="text-align:start;text-indent:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">should be also prohibited in Delphi mode, because it not works in Delphi like static array constants inside dynamic array constants...<br></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I had not tested that one. In consequence that should indeed be disallowed as well. Though here the syntax probably wouldn't provide problems in the future. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Regards, </div><div dir="auto">Sven</div><div class="gmail_quote" dir="auto"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><div style="text-align:start;text-indent:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div></div>