[fpc-pascal] Illogical automatic dereferencing

[Florian Klaempfl]

Jürgen Hestermann schrieb:
>> As said it depends from your viewpoint. C's original viewpoint was to
>> keep
>> the state of a compilation unit as small as possible, to maximize the
>> size
>> of a program with limited memory.
> 
> You mean they gave saving one character in the source code a higher
> priority than having a strict logic in the language? That sounds as if
> we are talking about the brainfuck language. ;-)

Modern languages contain a lot of stuff which is simply syntactic sugar.
  If you want strict logic, you should really use something like
brainfuck :)