[fpc-pascal] Printing of Pointer Type

[Jonas Maebe]

On 17 Jul 2008, at 07:38, leledumbo wrote:

> Currently, the only way to print Pointer is to use SysUtils.Format  
> or by
> typecasting it to PtrUInt first. Why not let it possible to print it
> directly? Any good reason for not allowing users to do it?

Because there are easy ways around it (as you mention) and the work to  
implement and maintain this would probably outweigh the usefulness.


Jonas