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

Marco van de Voort marcov at stack.nl
Tue Oct 13 22:24:22 CEST 2009


In our previous episode, Jonas Maebe said:
> > 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.

I guess some choice is fine, but I wouldn't change the default behaviour,
except for Delphi mode. It breaks a lot of code (e.g. fcl-image uses it a
_lot_)
 


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