[fpc-pascal] Is it possible to redefine FreePascal types?

[Kenneth Cochran]

Yes.

type newString = type string;

Any function that accepts newString as a parameter will cause a compilation
error if you try to pass a normal string. You'll have to cast it to
newString first.


On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 1:37 PM, Frank Church <vfclists at gmail.com> wrote:

> Lets say I am using some string variables, but I want to ensure that there
> are no typing errors in some code I am using.
> so I define newString as a new string type and declare a variable as
> ANewString.
>
> That way if I create a function such as functionUsingNewString(a:
> newString) and I pass a plain string as a parameter to functionNewString
> the compiler declares an error.
>
> If c is string and b is newString and I do b := c the compiler should
> generate an error unless I do b := newString(c);
>
> Is this possible?
>
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> Frank Church
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