[fpc-pascal] Illogical automatic dereferencing

[Jürgen Hestermann]

> Its a common mistake to use @<dynamic array var> instead of @<dynamic
> array var>[ 0 ].

IMO this happens because of an illogical design flaw (which seems to be 
introduced by Borland). If I have a variable that is a *pointer* to an 
array then why is it possible to use the square brackets to use it as if 
  it was an array? The derefencing symbol ^ should be needed here (X^[1] 
instead of X[1]). It's the same for PCHAR. It is a pointer and there 
should not be any automatic derefencing. That obscures the type origin 
and is not in the spirit of Pascal. And it leads to the mistakes 
mentioned above. It is C-like style ("the compiler will guess what you 
meant") which should never have crept into Pascal. If you build a 
complex data structure with nested pointers and arrays you get into hell 
with this automatic dereferencing.

Well, it is now much too late to change this but it annoys me all the time.