[fpc-devel] Delphi anonymous methods

[waldo kitty]

On 3/5/2013 04:20, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
> On 2013-03-04 20:33, Howard Page-Clark wrote:
>>
>> You can simulate this in FPC as well as TP by using a local typed
>> constant. e.g.
>>
>> function GetValue: integer;
>> const value: integer = 0;
>> begin
>>     Inc(value);
>>     Result:= value;
>> end;
>
>
> I've seen this before, and always been baffled by this. How can you
> increment a "constant"? If you can, it is then a variable, no?

yep... i also call all named storage items variables even if they are 
constants... what else do you call them in a generic sense? ;)