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

[Mark Morgan Lloyd]

Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:
> 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

My absurd example wasn't absurd enough :-) Should have read

operator := (wle: WordLE): word;

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

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