[fpc-pascal] Array clearing

Jürgen Hestermann juergen.hestermann at gmx.de
Wed Apr 12 17:14:49 CEST 2017


Am 2017-04-12 um 16:36 schrieb Ryan Joseph:
 > Why magic? It seems silly the operator += doesn’t exist

Well, are we using Pascal or C? ;-)


 > or even a basic operation set like “add”, “remove”, “insert” that every array implementation in every language has.
 > Aren’t those just function around the existing dynamic array implementation in the compiler?

I aggree that these functions could be added.
I always create such functions myself but I need to
respect the type of my arrays and rewrite these functions
for each new type.
If they were available as standard routines it would avoid these rewrites.




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