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

[Jürgen Hestermann]

 > Richard Ward schrieb:
> In my opinion also, the 
> semantics should be changed to reflect the actual nature of the 
> construct and behavior.   

Agree.

> Again, imo, it would be better if someone who 
> was migrating from Delphi, found that their FPC program didn't compile 
> could look in the manual and make the global changes rather than have 
> someone new introducing bugs into their programs because they were 
> confused on the concept.   

I fully agree. It is a much better approach to let a programmer change 
his own program when porting things than having some kind of 
compatibility mode which is then used for new programs too so that you 
never get rid of awkward coding hacks.

> I also wager it would be at least a wash for 
> the various mailing list moderators fielding questions from Delphi 
> migraters vs. new programmers.   At least the Delphi migrators should 
> (hopefully) have an understanding of the concept already.   And if they 
> really didn't understand the concept, this would flush out the 
> misconception.  - ROW

Agree again.


Jürgen Hestermann.