[fpc-pascal] Illogical automatic dereferencing
Jürgen Hestermann
juergen.hestermann at gmx.de
Mon Oct 12 14:20:02 CEST 2009
> The beauty of the current solution is that static and dynamic arrays can
> be substituted with each other, simple by changing the declaration, and
> adding/removing a setlength. All other code can be left as it is.
> If you needed the "^" for dyn arrays everywhere, then you would have to
> make huge changes throughout your code, if ever you needed to change
> between static and dynamic arrays.
What is the problem with search-and-replace? If you are forced to change
your code you will have a closer look at it and may get aware of side
effects of the change.
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