[fpc-pascal] Procedure types

[Mark Morgan Lloyd]

Michael Van Canneyt wrote:

>> Is there a directive or mode that will allow a procedure variable to be
>> compatible with AddressOf() as defined? Alternatively is there a type which is
>> compatible with any procedure variable (i.e. like Modula-2's PROC, if my
>> memory is correct), and can I overload AddressOf() to handle the specific case
>> of a procedure passed as parameter while leaving it tolerant of other types?
> 
> No you cannot.

Shucks :-)

> Did you try using Delphi mode ? The compiler uses other rules then.

Already am using (*$MODE DELPHI *)

After sleeping on the problem I've set up AddressOf as a macro with the 
value @ which certainly compiles- I'm not at the stage of running the 
program's own integrity tests yet.

 From 
http://lazarus-ccr.sourceforge.net/fpcdoc/prog/progse5.html#x121-1210002.2 
I'm still a little uncertain whether macro definition uses := or =  What 
I have found though is that using (* *) doesn't work- the definition has 
to be in {}  However on the machine in question I'm still on version 
2.2.0 of the compiler for various reasons.

-- 
Mark Morgan Lloyd
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