[fpc-pascal] Re: Identifier not found "result"

[Mark Morgan Lloyd]

Rainer Stratmann wrote:

> TP for DOS at 
> least supports a function result (as I remember) thus it is not Delphi only 
> as you mention.

It supports a function result, but it doesn't IIRC treat 'result' as a 
special identifier. Delphi /has/ to have 'result', since otherwise 
redefining standard operators would result in something like

operator := (wle: WordLE): word;

begin
{$ifdef ENDIAN_LITTLE }
   Move(wle, result, SizeOf(:=))
..

which is clearly absurd :-)

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