[fpc-devel] Redefine FillChar() to use out parameter instead

[Vincent Snijders]

Graeme Geldenhuys schreef:
> Florian Klaempfl wrote:
>>> I see many use-cases for out parameters
>> You mean for VAROUT parameters :)?
> 
> 
> 
> First one is not compilable, but the second one is. So no, I don't
> understand your comment about 'varout'? Please explain more.
> 

varout could be the name of the new parameter modifier that Jonas mentions[1] and 
that has the semantics that you think out should have, but hasn't.

Vincent

[1]http://lists.freepascal.org/lists/fpc-pascal/2009-November/023223.html