[fpc-devel] C style operator doesn't work with properties in 2.3.1

Michael Schnell mschnell at lumino.de
Thu Jul 17 11:02:28 CEST 2008


Boian Mitov wrote:
> There are a lot of fans of "with" ;-) . I have been burned however 
> long time ago. Now when I get a new code from somebody, my first task 
> is to remove any "with" from it ;-). As far as I am concerned "with" 
> is a Pascal design bug. May the guy who invented "with" track "with" 
> bugs for eternity ;-) .
I completely agree. We use a lot of (mostly commercial) Delphi 3rd party 
components. All of them bought with source code to be more safe. Lot's 
of them make heavy use of "with". Very annoying !

-Michael



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