[fpc-pascal] Illogical automatic dereferencing

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Marco van de Voort <marcov at stack.nl>:

> And the criticism about introducing Cisms in FPC/Delphi is also old. In
> the past I would have joined you, but after a few non-trivial header
> conversions and library conversions that pretty much died out.

Yes. But that's not the fault of the C-language. That's the fault of sloppy C-programmers. Keywords like "const" to express intent exist for more than 10 years now.

> Likewise you also get
> tired when you need to update some header (or code like zlib,jpeg) and
> have to guess what the purpose and consequences of some pascallization
> are.

That simply means, the code is not documented. Again: Not entirely C's fault.


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