[fpc-pascal] Type declaration

[Damien Gerard]

On Dec 21, 2007, at 3:53 PM, ik wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Dec 21, 2007 3:23 PM, Damien Gerard <milipili at shikami.org> wrote:
>>
>> Hi !
>>
>> I would like to know if there are any differences between these two
>> following declarations :
>>
>> type
>>    TMyType = smallint;
>
> This is an "alias" to smallint, giving it a new way reference it.
>
>>
>> And
>>
>> type
>>   TMyType = type smallint;
>
> This is a new type, that have the range of smallint, but they are not
> the same. If you will place a TMyType variable inside a smallint
> paremeter you might have an error or warning of type mismatch.
>

I like it :)
Thanks !



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