[fpc-devel] Re: Missing from documentation

[Jonas Maebe]

On 19 May 2010, at 14:34, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:

> BTW: I actually learnt something new now. I never new you could have a
> property outside a class. I can't say that in the many years I have  
> been
> programming with object pascal that I have ever seen properties used  
> as a
> global variable. Umm?

It's an FPC-specific extension. It's mainly used to implement the  
"port" construct from Turbo Pascal in the ports unit for Dos and Linux.


Jonas