[fpc-devel] Parameters must match exactly?

"Vinzent Höfler" JeLlyFish.software at gmx.net
Wed May 19 07:20:00 CEST 2010


Jonas Maebe <jonas.maebe at elis.ugent.be>:

> 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.

Yes, sure, it's a more predictable way of failing. It still wouldn't solve the problem.


Vinzent.

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