[fpc-devel] "case" with range stupidities

[Daniël Mantione]

Op Thu, 15 Feb 2007, schreef Vinzent Hoefler:

> Well, fair enough, but why is that I can declare a
> 
>    type
>       Foo = array[byte] of Something;
> 
> where the type name "byte" also indicates the range? Considering that
> 
>    type
>       Foo = array[Low (byte) .. High (byte) of Something;
> 
> is totally equivalent, the allowed usage of range types seems a little 
> bit inconsistent...

Yes, but as I said, case labels are a set, not just a range:

const x=[0,1,5];

type foo=array[x] of something

...would again be rather weird.

Daniël