[fpc-devel] Some new

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Tue, 5 Mar 2019, Michael Van Canneyt wrote:

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> On Tue, 5 Mar 2019, J. Gareth Moreton wrote:
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>> Heh, okay, I stand corrected.  Thanks Michael.  Seems I need to read up
>> on all the functions in the standard units.  Sorry for wasting everyone's
>> time.
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> No waste of time.
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>> I do wonder though if it's worth adding " in " to SysUtils, since it's a
>> very convenient and intuitive notation... not just for Chars but for all
>> basic types, actually.
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> If you want that, use a separate unit 'InUtils' or so.
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> Rationale: SysUtils is broadly used.
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> I don't want that my current "x in y" suddenly gets changed from a compiler 
> internal to something else because you decided to add some in operator to
> sysutils.
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> It should be a conscious choice by the developer to use such constructs.


For all clarity: I fully support your idea to make these overloads, I'm just
guarding users from inadvertent changes to their existing code.

Michael.