[fpc-devel] current_tokenpos/filepos

[Florian Klaempfl]

Am 06.09.2010 05:29, schrieb Hans-Peter Diettrich:
>>> 5) Some (parser) procedures modify current_tokenpos/filepos temporarily,
>>> and restore the old values later. What's the purpose of such changes?
>>>
>>
>> To get correct file positions in debugging code and error messages.
> 
> So every temporary change of current_tokenpos should be considered
> wrong? According to your above description I'd make current_tokenpos a
> read-only property of the scanner...

I'am not sure what e.g. generics do with it.