[fpc-pascal] Typed constant

[Valdas Jankūnas]

Jonas Maebe rašė:
>> MAX_LAIKO_JUOSTA_MINUTEMIS: 
>> SmallInt=MAX_LAIKO_JUOSTA.Valanda*MinsPerHour+MAX_LAIKO_JUOSTA.Minute;
>>
>> I creating constant from a constant. But why I getting that error?
> 
> Because a "typed constant" is a bad name chose by Borland for 
> "initialised variable". And you cannot use variables (initialised or 
> not) in constant expressions.
> 
> With {$j-} typed constants become real constants (they cannot be changed 
> anymore, unlike in the default {$j+} state), but even then the above 
> probably won't work because while parsing the compiler directly writes 
> the values of such constants/initialised variables in the assembler list 
> rather than constructing some semantic entity which can be reused later 
> (so the compiler has no way to retrieve the values of such constants 
> when you try to reuse them later on).

OK. Thanks for explanation

-- 
   Valdas Jankūnas