[fpc-pascal] Writeable typed constants - what's the point?

[Graeme Geldenhuys]

fpclist at silvermono.co.za wrote:
> 
> Is this likely to be dropped in future versions of FPC?

No idea. But I have noticed that FPC (mode objfpc) defaults to allow
writeable typed constants, whereas Delphi and Kylix doesn't. In the
latter two compilers you have to enable is support with $J+ compiler
directive.

I don't know (have not tested) what FPC does with mode delphi though.
But seeing that this feature is just for backward compatibility, maybe
it should be disallowed by default in mode objfpc as well?

Regards,
  - Graeme -

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