[fpc-pascal] Re: Identifier not found "result"

[Sven Barth]

On 02.09.2012 12:39, Giuliano Colla wrote:
> Il 31/08/2012 13:48, leledumbo ha scritto:
>>> I question your assumption that
>> "Result" is specifically more important than the other incompatibilities
>> among different modes (i.e. your statement that it "will help...a
>> lot"). I
>> do not say that it is wrong to be more helpful in error messages, but
>> rather that your proposal tries to "fix" a very small fragment of
>> something much more general and moreover that the proposed message may be
>> very easily misleading as already demonstrated by Mark. Yet other cases
>> might not be detected by the compiler at all:
>>
>> +1. Since Result is not really special, i.e. it can be declared by
>> user, it
>> would be difficult to detect whether it's user's intention or not.
> Treating just Result as a special case might not be worth while.
>
> However a more general feature could perhaps be useful:
> as the compiler knows all the keywords of all its modes, if an
> unresolved identifier happens to match a keyword of a different mode, a
> warning, sort of "wrong mode?" could be added. The overhead should be
> negligible, because it would occur only in case of unresolved
> identifier, and after a few of them compilation is stopped in any case.

1. "Result" is never a keyword.

2. There are context sensitive keywords that are not considered as 
global keywords in any mode (e.g. "read" and "write" of properties) and 
thus only the part that parses them (in the example the parser for 
properties) "knows" that it should consider these identifiers as keywords.

Regards,
Sven