[fpc-devel] Function variables and overload

[Florian Klaempfl]

peter green wrote:

>>>Would it be possible to get something like
>>>
>>>  L.Sort(@ICmp(PBigInt,PBigInt));
>>>
>>>in case ICmp is overloaded? If we could add the parameter
>>>types, there would be no more ambiguity, the compiler would
>>
>>There is ambiguity with a normal call to the function. The compiler sees
>>the ( and thinks it is parsing a call to Icmp().
>>
> 
> and then sees a type identifier in a syntax thats not a typecast which makes
> it totally clear that this can't be a call.

Really ;)?

What about @ICmp(TObject) ?

> 
> i dunno how much complexity supporting this syntax would add to the parser
> though.
> 
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