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

Florian Klämpfl florian at freepascal.org
Mon Jun 10 10:12:26 CEST 2019


Am 10.06.2019 um 09:14 schrieb Michael Van Canneyt:
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> Now, there exists an exception to this rule, introduced by Borland: open array parameters.

Well, open strings and open arrays cannot be considered as real types imo (you cannot declare anything else than a
parameter as open array/string) but more a parameter passing convention similar to call by reference parameters which
could also be considered as a type definition then (C++ has reference types after all).




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