[fpc-devel] Thoughts on being able to declare "pointer-to-type" parameters directly in method signatures?

[Ryan Joseph]

> On Jun 9, 2019, at 9:45 AM, Florian Klämpfl <florian at freepascal.org> wrote:
> 
> And? It is obvious that FPC has to know what's the base type of a pointer else it couldn't do type checking.

I think all he means is this:

type
  TInt = ^integer;

procedure DoThis(i: TInt);
begin
end;

var
  a: ^integer;
begin
  DoThis(a0);

He just wants function parameters to declare the new pointer type inline.

procedure DoThis(i: ^integer);
begin
end;

var
  a: ^integer;
begin
  DoThis(a0);

Regards,
	Ryan Joseph