[fpc-pascal] Operator overloading

[Mark Morgan Lloyd]

Jonas Maebe wrote:
> On 19 Sep 2009, at 22:21, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:
> 
>> Is there any way of overloading the ^ (dereference) operator for a 
>> user-defined type?
> 
> No, it isn't.

Shucks :-)  I remember that JPI v1 had what they called "virtual 
pointers" which specified a dereference function and could be useful, 
OTOH with today's flat memory and improved OSes there's probably other 
ways of doing it.

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Mark Morgan Lloyd
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