[fpc-devel] Delphi anonymous methods

[Howard Page-Clark]

On 04/03/13 6:34, waldo kitty wrote:

> i'm trying to understand what you mean by
>
>  > Pascal don't allows to create static variables inside function like
> in c-like
>  > languages.
>
> i've done something that i think is what you speak of but it was in
> Borland's Turbo Pascal... at least TP6... i don't remember how we did it
> though and can't find any sample code in my library :(

You can simulate this in FPC as well as TP by using a local typed 
constant. e.g.

function GetValue: integer;
const value: integer = 0;
begin
   Inc(value);
   Result:= value;
end;

Successive calls to GetValue() will return 1, 2, 3 etc.