[fpc-other] Re: [fpc-pascal] Illogical automatic dereferencing

[Jonas Maebe]

Florian Klaempfl wrote on Tue, 13 Oct 2009:

> Jonas Maebe schrieb:
>> Only allowing it for pchar/pwidechar, I guess.
>
> Then another person pops up and asks why it is allowed only for  
> pchar/pwidechar being illogical because this is not orthogonal.

Undoubtedly. I guess the best solution is to have that Delphi switch  
so everyone can set the behaviour he/she prefers.

> Besides the fact that I think that the pointer to array work around  
> would be really hacking e.g. due to range checking.

You can always do (pointertype+x)^, but I guess that's not acceptable  
either because it doesn't look very nice. It's more explicit about the  
intention though, imo.


Jonas

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