[fpc-devel] Minor Error in $delphi mode for a unit I'm converting

[Florian Klaempfl]

Michael Van Canneyt wrote:

> 
> 
> On Fri, 10 Jun 2005, L505 wrote:
> 
>> While converting a KOL regular expression unit for use with
>> freepascal, I came
>> across only one compile error, in {$mode delphi}
>>
>> The error was here:
>> const
>>  RegExprInvertCaseFunction :
>> TRegExprInvertCaseFunction=TRegExpr.InvertCaseFunction;

Can you create a complete example and in the best case add it to the bug
repository please?

>>
>> Error: Typed constants of the type "procedure of object" can only be
>> initialized
>> with NIL
>>
>> The code below seemed to fix the problem, as it compiled ok.
>> var
>>  RegExprInvertCaseFunction : TRegExprInvertCaseFunction;
>>
>> Is the error that I got correct even for delphi compatability? Is it
>> bad code,
>> good code?
> 
> 
> It is bad code.
> 
> Since there is no instance of TRegExpr, the assignment would only work for
> a class method, which makes little sense.
> 
> Michael.
> 
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