[fpc-devel] Debug compiler

[Ondrej Pokorny]

On 01.11.2015 16:38, Jonas Maebe wrote:
> 1) do you a) forbid an enumerator specification if the class already 
> has an enumerator
No, it's not needed.
> b) hide the existing enumerator
No, it's not needed.
> or c) allow enumerating both via the property and the original class 
> enumerator?
There can never be a situation where property and class enumerators 
compete. property enumerator is by design allowed only for array properties:
*property A[index: xyz]*. They cannot introduce an enumerator with 
current trunk.
> If you all both, how do you differentiate? If b), first assigning the 
> property to a variable
You cannot assign an array property to a variable. It does not exist 
without the index parameter.
> and iterating over that will have a different result than directly 
> iterating over the property, which is bad for understandability and 
> code predictability.
This can never happen. Array property does not exist without the index 
parameter.

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You probably missed the fact that property enumerator can be introduced 
only for array properties. I talk about it in the issue report 
http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=28820 :
/
Please note that the "enumerator" keyword can be used only for "array" 
properties because normal properties can have a default enumerator defined./

Also the patch I uploaded is written in regard to this design. See in 
project1.lpr (uncomment the enumerator keyword for testing):
*    property MyString: string read GetMyString;// enumerator 
GetEnumerator2;  // <-- try to uncomment, this has to fail to compile 
(correct) !**
*

Ondrej
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