[fpc-pascal] Question about interfaces and patch

[ml]

I made one wrong statement.

It's not "as" that doesn't work. getinterfaceentry works only for
interfaces that have guid specified. By default guid is zeroed, and
getinterfaceentry just returns first interface in table, which means
wrong. Same problem shows in Support too.

writing guid like ['{00000001-0001-0001-C000-000000340046}'] in
interfaces definition made it work as it should.

As soon as I set counter for auto defining guid (only if blank) in
symdef.pas, everything works even without specifying . (if guid is
specified then specified is used), otherwise it decrements from highest
possible to lowest. If this would be to stay then I can send this patch.
It doesn't break compilation of any older source. But i don't know if
some interfaces already use that GUID.

Any better suggested approach? (Second possible solution would be
implementing some other checking that's invoked if guid is 0) I am not
familiar with what guid would be (I suspect that it has some higher
meaning in windows, because all windows interfaces are specified with
guid, now even m$ stopped using specified guid in .net), so I would
appreciate some help by suggesting. And yes, this is a bug not a
feature.


On Fri, 2005-03-25 at 00:38 +0100, Marcel Martin wrote:
> Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
> 
> >>> On Thu, 24 Mar 2005 ml at brainwashers.org wrote:
> >>
> >> procedure MyXYZPart.DoReport(aRep: IReportable);
> >> begin
> >>  if (aRep <> nil) then begin
> >>    if (aRep is ILogged) then
> >>      (aRep as ILogged).Log(aRep.Report)
> >>    else
> >>      aRep.Report
> >> end;
> > 
> > 
> > I see what you want, but if you would do
> > 
> > procedure MyXYZPart.DoReport(aRep: TInterfacedObject);
> > 
> > begin
> >   if (aRep <> nil) and arep is IReportable then begin
> >     if (aRep is ILogged) then
> >       (aRep as ILogged).Log(aRep.Report)
> >     else
> >       aRep.Report
> > end;
> > 
> > you would have the same effect ?
> 
> 
> Yes, in both cases, the compiler will stop because of a "begin"
> without a "end". ;-)

That's the punishment you get when you copy/paste from source to write
less. Yes, my bad.

> 
> More seriously, each time I see a "then begin", maybe I am wrong
> but I immediately think that I have to deal with some code written
> by a C programmer. And, curiously, I cannot find it reassuring.
> 

Actually first company I was employed was using pascal. And they
enforced "then begin" and other rules. Somehow I can't stop writing like
this

when I write in c or c#, I write like this

if ( a == 1 )
{
	return;
}

And there's a very few coders that write 
if (a==1) {

> mm
> 
> 
> 
> 
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