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

Jürgen Hestermann juergen.hestermann at gmx.de
Fri Jun 19 18:35:00 CEST 2009


> The "var" version, acts as if your first statement in the procedure was 
> "a:= 1;". It initializes the variable each time you enter the function. 
> If you enter the function recursively, then each level, has it's own a, 
> not touching the value of the callers a

I also used Borlands "const-hack" a lot. But now I changed my behaviour 
and use VAR declarations directly before the function declaration (one 
level higher, outside the function context). That serves the same purpose.

Jürgen Hestermann.




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