[fpc-pascal] Inherited and not virtual/overridden procedures

[Jonas Maebe]

On 12 Jun 2013, at 00:12, Bart wrote:

> var
>  FooChild: TFooChild;
> 
> begin
>  FooChild := TFooChild.Create;
>  FooChild.Bar;
>  FooChild.Free;
> end.
> 
> To my surprise this compiles without any warning or error.
> It outputs:
> C:\Users\Bart\LazarusProjecten\ConsoleProjecten>test
> TFoo.Bar
> TFooChild.Bar
> 
> Why then would I need virtual and override anymore?

So that it would still have the same behaviour if you changed the variable declaration to

var
  FooChild: TFoo;


Jonas