[fpc-devel] Parameters must match exactly?

[Jonas Maebe]

On 18 May 2010, at 20:06, Vinzent Höfler wrote:

> Florian Klaempfl <florian at freepascal.org>:
> 
>> Vinzent Höfler schrieb:
>>> Florian Klaempfl <florian at freepascal.org>:
>> 
>> With a function result one can easily use the as-operator.
> 
> Yes, and then instead of doing the "undefined behaviour" thingie, it would cause an RTE instead. Not much of an improvement, I'd say.

Exceptions can be caught, unlike violations of the typing system that are silently ignored by the compiler.


Jonas