[fpc-pascal] For-in support in the next FPC release (was: PChar & AnsiString)

[Jonas Maebe]

On 02 Jun 2010, at 14:30, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:

> On 2 June 2010 14:16, Marco van de Voort wrote:
>>
>> Afaik it is merged into 2.4.1 already.
>
> Did somebody actually test it other than Paul (that also implemented
> it)?

Yes (at least other people reported bugs about it on fpc-devel).

> If so, that was a rather quick test for a big compiler change.

There was a discussion about it on core. It was merged because
a) the merge occurred shortly after the previous release, so there was  
a lot of time to test its effect on the fixes branch
b) it did not affect backwards compatibility
c) the compiler internally simply transforms it into a regular while/ 
do or for/do loop with temporary variables, and then the existing code  
takes over. So code was mainly added, which means that that there was  
little risk of breaking existing functionality


Jonas