[fpc-pascal] Printing of Pointer Type

[Vinzent Höfler]

Mattias Gaertner wrote:
> On Thu, 17 Jul 2008 10:45:22 +0200
> "Vinzent Höfler" <JeLlyFish.software at gmx.net> wrote:
> 
>> leledumbo <leledumbo_cool at yahoo.co.id>
>>> Jonas Maebe-2 wrote:
>>>> Because there are easy ways around it (as you mention) and the
>>>> work to implement and maintain this would probably outweigh the
>>>> usefulness.
>>>>
>>> Yes, it's easy but uncomfortable and needs more typing.
>> Well, sure, but printing pointer values in most cases is a pure
>> debugging aid and nothing really useful.
> 
> Well. Since the biggest time of programming is spent on debugging I
> guess, there is more need for a PtrToStr than for FloatToStr.

My mistake. As I spend most of my time designing the things first, so 
that debugging (especially at such a level) is reduced to a minimum, I 
might not have noticed yet that printing pointer values actually adds 
value to a delivered application.

Honestly, in the rare cases where I really need to do such things, the 
amount of typing work to add the typecast is negligible.


Vinzent.