[fpc-devel] FPC 3.0.0 class property default

[Mark Morgan Lloyd]

Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:
> Up to and including 2.6.4, this works:
> 
>         TRoundRobin= CLASS(TObject)
> .
>                      PUBLIC
> .
> (*$IFDEF HAS_TRUE YIELD *)
>                        PROPERTY HasTrueYield: BOOLEAN DEFAULT TRUE;
> (*$ELSE         *)
>                        PROPERTY HasTrueYield: BOOLEAN DEFAULT FALSE;
> (*$ENDIF        *)
> .
>                      END;
> 
> However using 3.0.0 rc1 I get
> 
> roundrobin.pas(80,55) Fatal: Syntax error, "READ" expected but 
> "identifier DEFAULT" found
> 
> It looks as though this was coded for a facility that wasn't actually 
> used, but that the intention was to convert a compile-time conditional 
> into something that could be incorporated into an ordinary boolean 
> expression.
> 
> What is the correct syntax, and how far back is FPC compatible with it?

Anybody got any thoughts on this please?

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Mark Morgan Lloyd
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