[fpc-devel] Forward Record

[Amir]

Hi,

   I have a use-case where I needed to forward declare some records.
The FPC documentation 
<https://www.freepascal.org/docs-html/ref/refse16.html> says "Note that 
a forward type declaration is only possible with pointer types and 
classes, not with other types".

   I wonder why? Is there any technical difference between classes and 
records for the purpose of forward declaration?

My use-case was to define a few records like the following:

type
   TData = record
     ....
     function ToA: TA;
    end;

   TA = record
      Data: TData;
      ....
   end;

I know I can define classes instead of record, but I do not want to do 
so, since I need to "Free" the objects.

Amir
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