[fpc-devel] Wrong docs: not initialized global variables

Ondrej Pokorny lazarus at kluug.net
Thu Apr 12 13:26:38 CEST 2018


On 05.04.2018 17:10, Sven Barth via fpc-devel wrote:
> Martok <listbox at martoks-place.de <mailto:listbox at martoks-place.de>> 
> schrieb am Do., 5. Apr. 2018, 16:29:
>
>     > From this rule, it follows that every variable must be
>     explicitly initialized [...]
>     > Be it with an assignment or an 'var a: type = someonstant;'.
>     ... for which the syntactic sugar was rejected not two weeks ago.
>
>
> Did we read the same thread?
>
> "var a: type = x" is already supported for both global and local 
> variables and Florian agreed that there is no reason to restrict that 
> only to a single variable (but only with the same value for each).
> Okay, Jonas disagreed, but personally am in favor of allowing that as 
> well.

Good to know your opinion.

 From what I read the position of rejecting the idea was much stronger 
than the support.

Ondrej
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