[fpc-devel] Compiler picks wrong overload

[Martok]

> More broadly I think the bigger problem is FPC's internal over-eagerness to
> implicitly cast things to other things... for example, if you have a type with
> an ":=" operator overload (or as Delphi calls it, an "Implicit" operator
> overload) from both "Pointer" and "TObject", FPC will always pick the "Pointer"
> one even if given an explicit TObject variable. They (currently) cannot
> co-exist. But certainly, they should be able to, if you ask me.

I still find "nil->Pointer->dynarray->UCS4String" the most hilarious "weight 1"
autoconversion (see 0031215, which is also an overload bug).


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Regards,
Martok